eHealth Management Platform for Screening and Prediction of Down’s Syndrome in the Republic of Panama

Juan Saldaña, Miguel Vargas-Lombardo^*

Software Engineering Department, Technological University of Panama, Panama City, Panama.

DOI: 10.4236/etsn.2014.33005                

Abstract

Through engineering projects, we have integrated software engineering, geographical information systems and HL7 standard to propose a model of an eHealth management platform for Down’s syndrome screening, replicable in all the country. It will use real time sample information acquired from the local population and will geographically reference this information in the territory of Panama for future research.

Keywords

Project Engineering, Software Engineering, GIS, eHealth, Management Platform, HL7, Trisomy 21, Sample, Screening, Detection

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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