Title: A Mobile Accessible Patient Monitoring Application

Abstract:
Mobile computing is playing an increasing role in patient monitoring application research and design as a result of the ever-growing range of technology now Supporting mobility. Mobile computers, laptops, tablet PCs, PDAs, cellular phones, and Hybrids are all devices intended to support mobility of users, and the proliferation of Wireless network access like WLAN, UMTS, GPRS, and GSM all support mobile computing. In this study, the objective is to do research and literature survey of mobile capabilities in support of a mobile accessible patient monitoring application.  Capabilities will include input  (e.g. touch, keyboard, voice, GPS location) and display (e.g. Charts, maps,  easy to use touch screen) and a study of the tradeoffs between native applications and browser-based applications. The research and survey will include an investigation  of native application frameworks to facilitate development with particular emphasis on Android but also comparison with frameworks for iPad/iPhone. Some evaluation will be made of how different back end technologies are supported (e.g. Grails, MS .Net, etc.)