Healthcare apps for Nokia X and Nokia Asha phones present a great opportunity to help improve the lives of millions of users around the world. In this webinar, we’ll discuss the fundamentals of mobile healthcare apps and give you an overview of the opportunities and challenges involved in developing such apps for Nokia phones. We’ll open the webinar with an introduction to the fundamentals of mobile healthcare, an overview of opportunities and challenges of developing apps for wellness and mobile health, and the role of mobile platforms in enabling health and healthcare apps. Then we will dig into specific techniques available when developing such apps for Nokia X and Nokia Asha platforms.We’ll demonstrate different approaches available to developers targeting the two platforms by examining a Blood Pressure Diary app, which is implemented for Nokia X and Nokia Asha. As part of that discussion we’ll show how to retrieve heart-rate data from medical devices using Bluetooth technology.
1. Healthcare apps
for Nokia X and
Nokia Asha
Oleg Medvedev, MD, PhD
Chair of Department of Pharmacology
Moscow State University
Ilya Paramonov, PhD
Head of Yaroslavl FRUCT Laboratory
Email: {oleg.medvedev, ilya.paramonov}@fruct.org
9. Mobile health trends for 2014-2017
• Smartphone user penetration will be the main driver for the mHealth uptake
• mHealth applications will be tailored specifically for smartphones or tablets
• mHealth applications will be native rather than web-based applications
• mHealth niche stores will become the home of the 2nd generation of mHealth apps
• Missing regulations are the main market barrier during the commercialization phase
• Buyers will continue to drive the market
• Applications will enter traditional health distribution channels
• mHealth market will grow mainly in countries with high Smartphone penetration and health
expenditure
• 2nd generation mHealth applications will focus on chronic diseases
“Mobile Health Trends and Figures 2013-2017”, Research2Guidance, July 2013:
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/2603873/mobile_health_trends_and_figures_20132017.
“Connecting People to a Healthy Future” video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxz9ZVvduGc
10. Users of mobile healthcare apps
• Doctors
Wants to support professional activities
• Patients
Wants for better treatment
• Healthy people
Wants to stay healthy for years
11. mHealth applications on the market
• Informational/tutorial
• Doctor assistants
• Vital signs/medication
trackers
• Mobile diagnostics/
telemedicine
12. Example app:
Blood pressure diary for Nokia X
• Available from Nokia Store for Nokia X devices
• Available from Google Play Market for the other Android devices:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fruct.yar.bloodpressurediary
13. Example app:
Blood pressure diary for Nokia Asha
• Available from Nokia Store: http://store.ovi.com/content/377268
• Video: http://youtu.be/t_DdCcZvZgk
14. Connectivity with medical devices
http://www.aandd.jp/products/medical/bluetooth/ua_767pbt.html
http://www.nonin.com/documents/4100%20Specifications.pdf
A&D UA-767PBT blood pressure monitor
Nonin 4100 Pulseoximeter
