The internship report summarizes the development of an mHealth application called mVirtual Health. Interns conducted a survey that found most mobile users believe mHealth tools could improve healthcare access and reduce costs. The interns prepared content for the application and portal, tested the website's functionality, and created promotional documents. Their work involved analyzing mHealth trends, developing the technology platform, and ensuring the application and portal met objectives of monitoring health metrics and facilitating patient-doctor communication.

1. SUMMER
INTERNSHIP
REPORT
PRESENTED BY
SAUMYA VERMA
SURBHI SHOKEEN

2. Organization Profile: Alleviate
Technologies
• Was founded in 2010 by group of techies from IIT and NSIT
graduates with aiming to build the intelligent products on IT arena.
• The company is specialized in the areas of Quality IT Consulting and
Enterprise solutions which offers full range of services that are
aligned with customer business strategies, I3 (Inspiration, Innovation
& Intelligence) in products & services
• Deals in :
• Enterprise Solutions
• Staff augmentation
• Mobile App Development
• NETIQ Consultancy
• The company is stepping in the field of mhealthcare through
creation of mVirtual Health application and web portal.

3. DEVELOPMENT OF M HEALTH
APPLICATION

4. Introduction
• mHealth broadly encompasses the use of mobile
telecommunication and multimedia technologies as they are
integrated within increasingly mobile and wireless health care
delivery systems .It can be defined as “mobile computing,
medical sensor, and communications technologies for health
care”.
Problem statement: development of mVirtual Health
application.
Rationale:
1. mHealth is a user oriented health service so the assessment
of its acceptability is a must.
2. mHealth has a huge potential to make a difference in
preventive health care which has not been studied yet in India.

5. mvh Universal Device
measures blood glucose,
SpO2, ECG, temperature
Data goes to
secured cloud.
Patient can enter data
in web portal, mobile,
receive notifications
and interact with the
doctor through them.
Can access patient records
and communicate with
patient accordingly via
mobile and web portal.
Data communication
with secured cloud via
secured channel.
Secured cloud
- maintains EHR
- generates
notifications,
reminders, reports
- enables interaction

6. 1. Amneris E Luque et al (2013) : Barriers And Facilitators Of Online Patient
Portals To Personal Health Records Among Persons Living With HIV:
Formative Research
• 86% respondents had some experience of using internet
• Majority expressed interest in the portal and its features
• 70% wanted to learn the use
• Important barriers were computer or broadband access and privacy
• Majority preferred use of a small handheld device like an iPad than a
desktop PC
2. Chang LW et al (2013): Perceptions and acceptability of mHealth
interventions for improving patient care at a community-based HIV/AIDS
clinic in Uganda: A mixed methods study
• Majority believed that mHealth would improve efficiency and patient
care
• Barriers were maintenance of patient confidentiality and lack of training
Review of Literature

7. 3. Samantha J Parker et al (2013) : The Perceptions And Acceptability Of
Mhealth Interventions For Improving Patient Care At A Community- Based
HIV/AIDS Clinic In Uganda
• 85% of participants were very willing to use mHealth to help manage
their pain condition
• 59% used cell phones and 41% regularly searched internet
• Potential barriers included cost, privacy concerns, and functional
limitations like visual and auditory deficits
4. McGillicuddy JW (2013): Patient attitudes toward mobile phone-based
health monitoring: questionnaire study among kidney transplant
recipients.
• 90% of respondents own a mobile yet only 7% had a prior knowledge
of mobile based remote monitoring
• 79% had positive attitude towards its use if it was available free of cost
• Majority believed that it would improve self-efficacy and provider
driven medical management
• Believed privacy would be maintained

8. Objectives
• General objective:
• development of mVirtual health
• Specific objectives:
• Analysis of current trends in mobile healthcare
• Prepare the content for the portal and the mobile application
• Observation of the technology used in making the mobile
application and web portal
• Testing of the working of the website portal.
• Preparation of documents for product promotion.

9. Analysis of current trends of
mobile healthcare
• Survey on acceptance of mHealth services by mobile users of
Delhi and NCR
• Methodology :
• Study area: Delhi and NCR
• Study design: Cross Sectional And Descriptive
• Study population: Mobile Phone Users Of Delhi and NCR
• Sample size: Consisted Of 57 Mobile Users
• Tools and techniques: Written Questionnaire And Personal
Interviews.
• Data analysis : Using SPSS

10. Survey findings:
• Fig.1 Do you think a tool that will measure your body vitals (blood glucose, blood
pressure, BMI, temperature, ECG and pulse oximetry) and apprise you of your
health status immediately will be useful

11. Fig 2 Do you think using mHealth services can
reduce healthcare costs

12. Fig. 3 mHealth services can improve the quality
of healthcare

13. Fig. 4 Would you like to have surveillance and
research authorities to have access to your
data in an unidentified format

14. Fig. 5 Being able to manage your health via
your mobile phone will induce regularity and
convenience in managing your healthcare

15. Fig. 6 mHealth services can improve the quality
of healthcare

16. Fig. 7 How much are you willing to pay for any
mobile phone based health service? (Rs/month)

17. Discussion of Study Findings
 most of the people agreed that a tool apprising them of their
health status regularly will be useful
 people have no reservations in accessing their health records
via a web portal
 majority of people agree that mHealth can be instrumental in
bringing down health care costs
 people agree that mHealth has potential to improve quality of
healtcare

18. Prepare the content for the web
portal and mobile application
• Information and representation of the following parameters:
• Body mass index
• Blood glucose
• Blood pressure
• Pulse oximetry

19. Technologies involved
• Hardware : universal device with bluetooth connectivity to
measure the body parameters
• Languages used :
• HTML
• CSS
• Java Script
• AJAX
• ASP.NET based web apps
• Android phone ( native app)

20. Testing of the working of the
website portal

21. Preparation of documents for
promotion of mVirtualhealth

22. References