Technical evaluation of an e-health platform.

Lo, Owen; Fan, Lu; Buchanan, William J; Thuemmler, Christoph

Abstract

Methodologies for evaluation of e-Health platforms are still lacking. We propose an e-Health evaluation framework that aims to provide a concise methodology for the evaluation of e-Health platforms under three main categories: usability evaluation, logistics evaluation and technical evaluation. For the scope of this paper, focus is given on defining techniques to enable the gathering of technical evaluation metrics using our proposed framework. Technical evaluation provides insight on the scalability, response time, functionality and performance of an e-Health platform. Using simulated patient data, preliminary evaluation experiments carried out on an existing e-Health platform, known as the Cloud4Health platform, proves the viability of our defined methodology for gathering of technical evaluation metrics. Experimental results showed up to 100 simulated patient's data could interact with the Cloud4Health platform concurrently with a maximum round-trip time latency value of 6.6 seconds for data samples to be processed. Future work aims to build upon this evaluation framework and develop techniques to gather both usability and logistics evaluation metrics when conducting evaluation of e-Health platforms.

Citation

Lo, O., Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., & Thuemmler, C. (2012, July). Technical evaluation of an e-health platform. Presented at IADIS International Conference e-Health 2012

• Conference Name: IADIS International Conference e-Health 2012
• Start Date: Jul 17, 2012
• End Date: Jul 19, 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Deposit Date: Sep 20, 2012
• Publicly Available Date: May 16, 2017
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference e-Health 2012
• ISBN: 978-972-8939-70-0
• Keywords: E-health; evaluation framework; usability; technical evaluation; logistics; methodology; Cloud4Health
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5565
• Contract Date: May 16, 2017