Project Outline: IoT-Based Healthcare Application Development Project

This project outline details the development of an IoT-based healthcare application by a software development firm. The project involves creating an IoT-based application integrated with healthcare equipment, computer systems, databases, and mobile interfaces for patients, medical professionals, and healthcare management. The project addresses challenges faced by a medium-scale healthcare firm, including data management issues, security concerns, and patient engagement. The outline includes the company's background, project description, company size, impact of the problem, and the intended mixed-method research process involving interviews, observations, surveys, and data analytics to identify and assess issues. The research aims to determine functional and non-functional requirements, analyze data trends, and evaluate the impact of identified problems on the organization. The project also includes a detailed reference section.

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Project Outline
IoT-Based Healthcare Application Development
1/10/2019

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Table of Contents
Project Outline.......................................................................................................................................2
Organization Description...................................................................................................................2
Project Description............................................................................................................................2
Company Size & Information............................................................................................................3
Impact of the Problem on the Organization.......................................................................................3
Intended Research Process................................................................................................................4
References.............................................................................................................................................6
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Organization Description
The organization is a large-scale software development firm that develops web and mobile
applications for its clients. The major clients of the organization are the small and medium
scale business enterprises in the business domains as healthcare, finance, and commercial.
The organization was established in the year 2009 and is engaged in the software
development projects since its inception. The headquarters of the organization are in Sydney,
Australia.
The organization has always believed that innovation is the key to business and commercial
success. Technology is enhancing itself and the organization makes sure that it reflects latest
technology in all the software development and other business operations that it performs.
There are latest development and management techniques that are adopted by the company to
provide its customers with the expected set of services and products.
Project Description
The project that is being carried out by the company is the development of an IoT-based
healthcare application for one of its medium-scale healthcare organization. The project will
be developed using Internet of Things (IoT) as the primary technology. IoT is one of the
emerging technologies that refer to the inter-connection of a varied set of components to
achieve a common goal (Lingam, 2017). The components that will be involved and integrated
in the application will be healthcare equipment, such as heart rate monitor, glucometer, etc.,
computer systems, database, database server, web server, Smartphones, network peripherals,
sensors, data analytics tools, and Big Data tools (Harsh, 2017).
The software development project will include the development of the IoT-based healthcare
application along with a front-end for the application which will act as the interface for the
users. The web interface will be accessible from the mobile as well as desktop platforms. The
primary users for the application will be the patients, medical professionals, nursing staff, and
healthcare organization’s management. The other users may include the administrative staff,
healthcare authorities, and the family members of the patient. The project will be developed
as per the business requirements & specifications handed over by the client. Some of the
high-priority requirements include the management of the healthcare data sets by including
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the security and privacy of the information along with the automated analytics of the patient
data to speed up and enhance the accuracy of medical diagnosis (Dziak, Jachimczyk &
Kulesza, 2017).
Company Size & Information
The company has its headquarters in Sydney, Australia and it is set-up in three further
locations in Australia as Melbourne, Brisbane, and Canberra. There are currently 325
employees engaged with the organization. About 40% of these resources are associated with
the Sydney office and the rest 60% are spread across the other three offices.
There are over 180 dedicated software development professionals deployed with the
organization and these resources have varied development skills. For instance, there is a wide
range of programming languages and the software developers associated with the
organization have expertise on the languages as PHP, Python, C#, C++, Java, Ruby, etc. The
other employees deployed in the organization include managers, data scientists, web
designers, UI Experts, business analysts, human resource management staff, and support
staff.
The company has completed over 1,676 projects since its inception and has succeeded in
developing a distinguished name in the market. This is because the organization always
makes sure that it provides its clients with the latest software packages that are in accordance
with trends and patterns in the market.
The management unit that is associated with the organization also adopts varied managerial
and leadership styles to successfully carry out the project. The project management
methodologies that are applied by the organization include Project Management Body of
Knowledge (PMBoK), agile methodology for Project Management, Projects In Controlled
Environment (PRINCE2), and Lean Project Management (Serrador & Pinto, 2015).
The company has always achieved a rating of 4+ on a scale of 5 from its customers.
Impact of the Problem on the Organization
The client of the project of IoT-based healthcare application development project is a
medium-scale healthcare firm. The healthcare firm is facing a lot many issues with its data
management and handling processes.
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The number of patients is increasing on a per day basis and there is a lot of information that is
associated with every patient. Some of these information sets include demographic details of
the patient, medical details of the patients, medical history, medical professional details,
payment details, etc. Also, there is a record of every medical professional that is required to
be stored and managed in the database. This leads to the presence of a huge cluster of
information that includes a wide range of data. These data sets have varied data structures and
the volume of these sets also varies.
It is, therefore, becoming difficult for the organization to manage all of these data sets. Also,
the patient engagement and satisfaction levels are deteriorating as a result. There is a lot of
time that is spent in data searching and retrieving. There have also been occurrences wherein
the medical reports of the patients have been duplicated or deleted from the records. The
traditional tools and methods for data management are no longer sufficient to manage the
data requirements of the organization.
Another problem that the organization faces is data security and privacy. There are several
data security and privacy risks that are now associated with the organizational data. The
occurrence of these risks, such as data loss, data leakage, malware attacks, denial of service
attacks, etc. have legal and organizational issues for the company (Deursen, Buchanan &
Duff, 2013). Also, the repeated occurrence of the security and privacy issues has resulted in
the reduction of the market shares and customer base. The overall revenues and sales of the
organization have also come down.
It has become essential for the organization to automate the business processes and manage
its data adequately.
Intended Research Process
It is intended to conduct the research using a mix of qualitative and quantitative research
methods. The exploration of the issues will be done under the qualitative methods and the
analysis will be made as per the data sets gathered. The data techniques that are intended to
be used and applied under this method would be interviews, observations, surveys, domain
analysis, and group discussions. There will be interview sessions planned with the target
audience of the mobile application and the response will then be analysed to understand the
nature of issues and the associated impacts. Similarly, group discussions will be done. The
observation of the existing system will be done to understand the process flow and to get an
idea of the issues and problems associated with the same. The surveys and questionnaires will
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be prepared as per the user type and the response will be collected to determine the functional
and non-functional requirements (Jervise & Drake, 2014).
The quantitative research methods will make use of the mathematical and statistical
approaches to determine the issues and the associated impacts. Co-relational and
experimental research processes are intended to be applied under the quantitative set of
methods. The sample size in all of these processes will be kept small to moderate.
The data sets that will be gathered as per both the research methods and categories will then
be analysed using the automated data analytics tools. The associated patterns and trends will
be identified to get the details of issues that will be involved. The impact assessment will then
be carried out for all the issues that will be listed. This will provide a detailed identification of
the issues, type of the issue, nature of the impact, degree of the impact, and associated details.
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References
Deursen, N., Buchanan, W., & Duff, A. (2013). Monitoring information security risks within
health care. Computers & Security, 37, 31-45. doi: 10.1016/j.cose.2013.04.005
Dziak, D., Jachimczyk, B., & Kulesza, W. (2017). IoT-Based Information System for
Healthcare Application: Design Methodology Approach. Applied Sciences, 7(6), 596.
doi: 10.3390/app7060596
Harsh, K. (2017). IOT Based Calorie Calculator For Healthcare System. International
Journal Of Engineering And Computer Science. doi: 10.18535/ijecs/v6i5.10
Jervis, M., & Drake, M. (2014). The Use of Qualitative Research Methods in Quantitative
Science: A Review. Journal Of Sensory Studies, 29(4), 234-247. doi:
10.1111/joss.12101
Lingam, S. (2017). Transforming Smart Healthcare through the Internet of Things (IoT).
International Journal Of Emerging Trends In Science And Technology, 4(9). doi:
10.18535/ijetst/v4i9.08
Serrador, P., & Pinto, J. (2015). Does Agile work? — A quantitative analysis of agile project
success. International Journal Of Project Management, 33(5), 1040-1051. doi:
10.1016/j.ijproman.2015.01.006
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