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=Medical Platform Project=
=Medical Platform Project=
==About this platform==
===Background===
[[File:NCUCSIElogo.png|thumbnail|right|NCU CSIE]]
[[File:NCUCSIElogo.png|thumbnail|right|NCU CSIE]]
With the aging population worldwide, there has been a rapid increase in dependent patients who are either bed or house bound. Although there are lots of medical mobile apps on the shelf to provide personal medical information, analysis, or even some simple monitoring functionalities, these applications are used on current complicated operating systems that most aging patients may have difficulties to use.  
With the aging population worldwide, there has been a rapid increase of dependent patients who are either bed or house bound. Although there are lots of medical mobile apps on the shelf to provide personal medical information, analysis, or even some simple monitoring functionalities, these applications are used on current complicated operating systems that most aging patients may have difficulties to use.


In October 2015, we raised a suggestion and initialized this project in National Central University. The target audience for this project focuses on the patients / users who are unable to go to hospitals and see doctors, and who would like to have a centralized place for all medical apps, and who are not familiar with existed complicated mobile operating systems. It contains the following parts:
In October 2015, we raised a suggestion and initialized this project in National Central University. The initial target audience for this project focuses on the patients / users who are unable to go to hospitals and see doctors, and who would like to have a centralized place for all medical apps, and who are not familiar with existed complicated mobile operating systems.


1. Wearable device. <br>
===Concept of the platform===
2. Internet hub. <br>
[[File:MedicalPlaformConcept.png|thumbnail|right|Concept of Medical Platform]]
3. Data center.
With this platform, we expect to bring tighter connections between patients, their family members, and doctors. As a start, we focus on the exchange of corresponding health and medical information.
 
===Component of the platform===
[[File:MedicalPlaformComponent.png|thumbnail|right|Components of Medical Platform]]
 
The platform contains following 3 parts:
 
 
1. A device that directly receive patient's health data. It may have BLE and/or internet access capability.
 
A commonly seen wearable device is an example of this. It could be a medical instrument as well, which measures a patient's specific data, like blood pressure. A more powerful wearable can even collect information from other medical devices. (In such case it plays part of the role of the "internet hub", which is the next component of this platform. We will mention this “hub” later.) We will also try to optimize Firefox OS to be able to retrieve monitoring data from 3rd party medical devices or other related IOT devices constantly.
 
If the wearable is built with a display, it should provide a quick and easy to understand dashboard for showing an overview of health condition to a patient. The wearable can be a communication channel between patient and doctor as well. For example, it regularly send information to a data center for doctors to do diagnosis and may allow doctors to send some suggestions to the patient. (which subjects to related law/regulatory of telemedicine.)
 
 
2. Internet hub.
 
Since not all wearable devices and medical instruments have internet capability, we will need a hub that can link those devices (for example, via Bluetooth) and connect to the data center via WIFI or cable. Battery life of wearables is another consideration that drives such need. (It consumes more power if a wearable device has web access capability itself)
 
This internet hub simply acts as a bridge, to transfer data between a data center and devices like wearables. It could be a dedicated physical device executing a tailored FxOS, or a smartphone/TV running a designed FxOS App, or web page.


Wearable devices stay with users and collect all information from other medical devices. An operating system with simple and friendly user interface to these target audience is expected in the wearable devices. We will also try to optimize Firefox OS to be able to retrieve monitoring data from 3rd party medical devices or other related IOT devices constantly. This wearable device can be also used to provide quick and easy to understand dashboard, to show the overview of health condition to users. It can be used as a communication channel between users and doctors. Therefore, it keeps sending information to data center for doctors to do diagnosis, and also allows doctors to send some suggestions to users.


In order to increase the battery life in the wearable devices, the concept to have internet hubs is generated. Internet hubs connect with wearable devices via bluetooth, and connect with data center via WiFi. It acts as the bridge to transfer data between wearable devices and the data center.  
3. Data center.


Data center collects all data from wearable devices and do further statistics and provide a web based management console for doctors to do diagnosis. It also provides console for users and their family members to keep connected and be aware of the health condition of the users.  
As a start, the data center collects all data from above 2 types of devices (in the future we may consider getting data from other data centers of hospitals, health centers, research institutes, etc.). It process further statistics and provides a web-based management console for doctors to perform diagnosis. It also provides a console for patients and their family members to keep them connected and be aware of the health condition of the patients.


With this project, we would like to bring more medical devices to the world of web, and provide a secure environment that shorten the distance between users and doctors.  
With this platform, we would like to bring more medical devices to the world of web, and provide a secure environment that shorten the distance between patients, their family members, and doctors.  


==How to join?==
==How to join?==
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