Health 2.0 STAT

Open Mobile Health Exchange (OMHE) – A Microsyntax

Alan Viars, CEO VidentityTwitter: @aviars

Email: aviars@videntity.comMobile: +1 304.686.3137

What is a Microsyntax?

Human Readable Human Writable Machine Readable (ability to parse) Machine Writable Short & compact Often ideal for mobile text message (SMS),

Twitter, etc.

What isn't a Microsyntax?

XML JSON These are often microformats and are almost

exclusively for machine-to-machine communication. In other words, their use cases often differ from a microsyntax.

What is www.microsyntax.org?

A new 501- 3(c) organization dedicated to identifying and finding consensus around microsyntax.

OMHE became a microsyntax.org project thanks to introductions made by Mark Scrimshire (He spoke at the last Health 2.0 STAT).

The Perplexing Problem

How do I standardize data from multiple devices including mobile phones, land lines, web clients, and medical devices?

Is there an open source format I can use?

The Perplexing Problem

The closest thing to solving the problem is Continua.

Continua is closed-source and costs quite a bit of money to access the format. Bummer.

XML & JSON is great for machines, but what

about us humans?

Ah-Ha!

Let's define an open source microsyntax to solve this problem!

Let's make the license open source and business friendly (Apache 2 License)!

Let's give it away!

OMHE Microsyntax Easy

Open

Free

Nirvana

What DOESN'T OMHE Cover?

Security

Transport

These are intentionally left up to the implementor

What OMHE Covers

Blood Pressure

What OMHE Covers

Weight Despite multiple

attempts the cat would not pose on the scale.

Embarrassed by too much Meow Mix?

What OMHE Covers...

Many other elements including: Body Mass Index (BMI) Access Requests for Medical Info Mood Pain Levels Much More...

Anatomy of OMHE

[command]<value> bp90/80p60 [command]=<value> bp=90/80p60 '=' is optional Commands can have

longer aliases. bp=bloodpressure

How the Group Works

Evolved during HealthCamps Tools: Skype, Twitter, GoogleGroups,

GoogleCode Each command is a proposal until

someone actually implements it. We're still evolving the process.

Get Involved!

Some of the most involved companies include:

Polka, Keas, and Videntity.http://code.google.com/p/omheShare your code (if you like)

What's in the Code Repository? Parser*. This contains

both a library and command line utilities

GUI* Client Examples

Compatible with Linux, UNIX, Mac, & Windows

*All code is still in alpha and is actively under developed

GUI Screenshots

Command-Line Screen Shots

What's Cooking?

omhe2ccr.py Library

Open Source Graphing Library

Thank You

My Contact Information:Alan Viars, CEO

Videntityaviars@videntity.com

http://videntity.comTwitter: @aviars