Implementation of Cloud-Based Personal Health RecordIntegrated with IoMT
Natasha Blazheska-Tabakovska, Andrijana Bocevska, Ilija Jolevski, Blagoj Ristevski, Nikolaos Beredimas, Vassilis Kilintzis, Nicos Maglaveras, Snezana Savoska · 2021
The paper presents implementation challenges for the cloud-based Personal Health Record (PHR) for Cross4all project with the usage of healthcare sensors according to the concept Internet of medical things (IoMT). The purpose of the paper is to highlight the implementation obstacles and solutions for the proposed PHR base model connected with cross-border healthcare systems that introduce a PHR concept. The paper also intends to assess the needed effort for increasing digital and e-health competences of the participants, supporting strategy where the patient is the owner of data and the key point of data collection. The increased need for e-health and digital health literacy for project implementation in the region has to be one of the main prerequisites for the acceptance of the concept by medical professionals and patients. In the PHR system patients will also have the opportunity to upload scanned medical documents as PDF or DICOM Media about their diseases and treatments available for the doctors. The data of the patient will temporary be at the disposal of the selected medical professionals in order to have information for decision making. This type of patient-centric data integration has to bring many benefi ts for patients and medical staff in the process of improvement of patient care.