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Blog Summary

This blogging project helped to bring together a lot of the pieces necessary to a successful startup. MobileMed is an entrepreneurial idea meant to encapsulate everything we've learned over the past month. My favorite part of this project was having the ability to relate any idea we had all back to information studies.

To be honest, the IT part of the curriculum isn't as interesting to me as the idea of IT management. It was really helpful to have both the challenging parts of a system like networking and something like security issues and legality come together here. I looked into Google's first attempt at something like MobileMed, but it all stopped once the issue of legality and security really came into view. Summarizing the idea of MobileMed all came to my attention when I looked into how much networking and database structure meant to a company. It would take a team of incredibly talented and driven people to get an idea like this off the ground-- it would be great to witness and be a part of.

The bottom line ends up being that this project really helped put together the full field of information needed to develop this entrepreneurial idea. I'd like to try and get an idea like this off the ground to find a way to make it work. I really think MobileMed would have a shot so long as the security issues were fixed. It's been excellent to see how this idea developed and showed promise to continue said developments.

-Alex Rajaniemi

Bits and Bytes: How audio and imaging quality will impact MobileMed

Hi, back again after our first exam of the year in IST195 and blogging about bits and bytes-- that is, how audio and the quality of said audio will work within the application MobileMed. Considering one of the biggest upsides to this application would be the quick and easy communication with your physician, recorded messages will be available to each user and doctor. Within this application, doctors will be able to leave recorded messages (just like you would get on your mobile phone) that will be archived within your account. Obviously quality of these messages is of utmost importance so what I'm going to focus in on are mp3 and wav files.

Now, it's known throughout the digital audio world that WAV files are of superior quality, but that the internet music sensation was born through the mp3 file. What needs to happen in order for MobileMed's recorded voice system to properly work is the willingness of the physicians and patients who use it to convert to WAV files from their personal computer (yes, the plan is to have a website that offers not only what the application brings, but even more). This way, you can record both patient and doctor in the same reliable sound quality whenever and wherever needed. MobileMed wouldn't even need massive caches for these audio files-- it's not like each message will be a five minute long song with multiple instrumental overlays, it's simple audio recording.

Another focus of this application is to provide patients with immediate scan results-- none of this nonsense about having to come in to view your x-rays. It's as easy as it naturally should be-- the physician uploads an image file (typically .jpeg or pdf) and uses our note device to either record his or her comments upon the scan or just write them out and attach to the photo. Each image needs to be at the highest degree for each mobile device, so as of right now that may be the 1080p HD screen on the iPhone 4S. The data capacity needs to over exceed the amount of bytes needed to hold a quality photo to ensure the best product available. These results and feedback would be immediately available to each and every patient, increasing the patient's happiness and overall wellbeing.

Clearly the quality of the audio and the imaging is vital to the application's success, so it's right at the top of the list when physical application design would possibly be put into progress.

-Alex Rajaniemi

Privacy and Security on MobileMed

This week's post is concerns the clear problem of privacy and security that MobileMed might face. Considering MobileMed is a medical app-- and medical information and data is kept as the utmost of private manners-- this poses quite a threat to the prospective application. I've outlined a few possible problems or concerns that might arise:

• Easy access to medical information
• Access to past history
• Possible access to social security 
• Problems with failure and/or mis-sending of information due to network issues

Unfortunately, this app wouldn't have the ability to shut itself off when users aren't utilizing it's services, but one thing we can do to protect against identity theft and better protect the privacy of each individual using the app is revoking the ability to be continuously signed in. MobileMed would then be a by-use basis application, requiring sign-in and social security information in order to gain access to the expansive good that this app can provide. Of course, this doesn't protect against identity theft, but we can do our best to combat this as well. Settings would have the ability to monitor your progress from a home computer, showing not only what you want to see about yourself, but tracking what you (or, God forbid, someone else) is doing within our application. Again, unlike most apps, MobileMed would not have the ability to post your information or anything that happens on our app to any site, search engine, nor be saved in the cache as a page that can be accessed without going through our complete sign-in phase.

It's understood that at the base of this application is privacy and security, but these basic measures would be the first steps to what would be an extensive protection against identity theft and information theft. I feel that this application is a viable and resourceful one, and if these precautions were put in place, it would pave the way for an extremely successful, useful, safe, and secure application that the world would love.

-Alex Rajaniemi

Week 1-Entreprenurial Idea

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
- Steve Jobs, Creator of Apple, Inc.

It's no secret that the world we live in is growing increasingly more mobile in terms of information sharing and accessibility. We have online banking, online gaming, online shopping, and online socialization-- but one thing we lack is the ability to monitor our health on the go. The following is a presentation of the idea for a company that will effectively revolutionize, and more importantly lead, the healthcare business: MobileMed.

MobileMed is a way to link every part of your healthcare package and have it accessible in the palm of your hand. MobileMed would consist of, but not be limited to:

• Past medical records
• Current physical and checkup updates and information
• MRI, XRAY, and CAT Scan image downloads
• The ability to video chat with physicians 
• Health insurance accessibility (with participating healthcare companies)
• Payment ability
• Prescription status and updates

With the majority of the adult world having gone mobile, the time for a medical application that encapsulates all of these abilities is now. Healthcare has been in the headlines in news feeds all over the world from it's political coverage this past spring and summer-- including Twitter and Facebook feeds-- so change is coming in this field. Twitter would act as a marketing ploy and update engine for MobileMe-- Tweeting bug updates, app advances, and even accepting consumer questions and concerns. Because healthcare information is confidential, Twitter would not a be a viable source of information sharing when it comes to actual medical data. This application, which would be made available to Windows Phone, iPhone, Droid, and all other compatible smartphones, would change the way healthcare works and the way we monitor our health everyday. 

MobileMed would combine everything we need to track our health and our healthcare costs on the go. With all of the medical information you need and the ability to share said information with medical professionals will transform this industry forever. We are mobile-- simply put it's how the world is now-- and our health needs to be mobile. With MobileMed, this will all be possible.

-Alex Rajaniemi