LabConcept—A New Mobile Healthcare Platform for Standardizing Patient Results in Telemedicine

• Main Authors: Manole-Stefan Niculescu, Adriana Florescu, Sever Pasca
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-02-01
• Series: Applied Sciences
• Subjects: telehealth; mobile application; electronic health record; health improvement; easy monitoring; safe solution
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/4/1935

The aim of this paper is to present a new original software platform, called LabConcept, that is designed for monitoring health activity in order to establish a more efficient treatment plan and provide a better lifestyle via telemedicine. It is fully designed by the authors and embeds all the patient’s healthcare information into a mobile software application, compatible with smartphones, laptops or other mobile devices. The novelty consists in standardizing the laboratory and the point-of-care results into a Quick Response (QR) code that is printed on every result bulletin issued and given to the patient after his routine blood assays are performed. Compared to the existing telemedicine software (VSee, Teladoc, TheraPlatform, Chiron Health), which have the basic videoconferencing role, LabConcept has a set of new important features that start from the concept of telemedicine, designed to load and create databases for all the assayed results in order to be sent to the doctor’s LabConcept application for professional interpretation. The software also analyzes the clinical evolution of an assay on a user-predefined period of time, automatically pre-diagnoses and alerts the user about a potential disorder from the stored results and records comments regarding the efficiency of the patient’s treatment plan. LabConcept is an easy and safe end-to-end real-time patient–doctor communication channel, conducive to improved monitoring and treatment procedures for the patient.