Scandia

This week we discussed the capstone project in terms of creating the xml tags and answering the question to the text messaging service.

This is what was discussed about the xml tags

<GlucoseLevelMessage>

<Patient>

<ID>patientIdNumber</ID>

<MedicalRecNum>patientMr</MedicalRecNum>

<GlucoseReading>

<TimeAndDate>currentTime;currentDate</TimeAndDate>

<Level>currentLevel</Level>

</GlucoseReading>

<CellPhone>

<CellNumber>patientCell</CellNumber>

</CellPhone>

</Patient>

</GlucoseLevelMessage>

That is just one portion of it. Also this was answered about the messages.

If medical personnel chose to send a text message to the patient, the server would have to transmit the message as an email with 160 characters or less.  If they don’t, they run the risk as sending it as an MMS which might not be supported by the patient’s phone or carrier if there is no data plan or a data block on their phone.  Sandia would have to use an appliance called an SMS gateway.  It is a machine that connects to the existing network of Sandia and is implemented to send out messages to its patients.  This device is connected to any GSM network and allows of sending up to 100,000 messages per day.  A couple of things to consider with this gateway however, is that the messages need to stay under 160 characters otherwise they run the risk of sending it as an MMS.  An MMS has a possibility of not being received if the patient has a phone that doesn’t support data, doesn’t have a data plan, or has a data block on the device.  So essentially, Sandia’s server will transmit an SMS over the SMS gateway to the patient which will be initiated by the physicians and other medical personnel.