# LabConcept--A New Mobile Healthcare Platform for Standardizing Patient Results in Telemedicine
###### Abstract  
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. telehealth; mobile application; electronic health record; health improvement; easy monitoring; safe solution +
Footnote †: journal: Medical  
In 1995, the Geisinger company developed an IT strategic plan to implement an electronic health record (EHR) system. The reason that underlaid the development of EHR was the need to improve communication of clinical data across the integrated delivery system, improve patient safety, reduce practice variability, introduce best practices, reduce costs, increase revenues and meet regulatory requirements efficiently [4; 5]. In 2012, the Romanian National Health Insurance House started a project called \"The Electronic Health File (EHF)\" with an investment of approximately 23 million dollars financed from the European Funds. The project was finished in 2014 and the system was online in 2016, when the public and private hospitals, laboratories and medical service companies were constrained by law to use the EHF. This electronic file contains, in a standardized manner, all the relevant information about the clinical state of the patient: allergies, intolerances, transmitted diseases, medical procedures, chronic diseases and assay results [6]. Today's technology is advanced and is already present in the healthcare market, but even if there are integrated services that the clinicians remotely use to monitor their patients' activity or to send/receive their medical status, it is not considered telemedicine since the whole process is carried out internally in their institution [7]. Telemedicine can be considered real, in fact, when the exchange of information takes place at a great distance and is performed with the help of a provider and not from the hospital's internal network [8]. Starting from this idea, this paper presents a novel experimental mobile software platform, fully designed by the authors, that is capable to communicate between the patient and the medical doctor bi-directionally through e-mail, where the results of the blood assays are exchanged along with comments regarding the patient's medical state. The experimental software platform consists of a Matlab Graphical User Interface (GUI), called LabConcept, that has an extended software menu with QR scanning, archiving, data reception from the professional or home medical equipment (biochemistry, hematology, immunoassay, glucose and coagulation meters), statistic overview and safe end-to-end communication. In this manner, the consultation process in the healthcare industry will become more simple, flexible and efficient.