Open Mobile Health Exchange: A Microsyntax.org Project
I am happy to announce that Alan Viars will be heading up a new project for Microsyntax.org, called Open Mobile Health Exchange:
OMHE (Open Mobile Health Exchange), pronounced “ooommm” is an
open-source microsyntax for medical devices, and other “short text
capable” systems. OMHE is used for sending blood pressure, blood
glucose, weight, step-per-day, pain levels, and other common
information often sent between people and their health care provider.
It’s designed to be easily typed on a mobile phone, while at the same
time, easy for machines (i.e. computer, applications) to understand.
Although OMHE is simple enough for manual human entry, its not always
necessarily typed directly by humans. For example, many applications
may present the user (human) with a graphical user interface (GUI), but
still use OMHE as the underlying data format. OMHE can also be used for
“machine-to-machine” communication. For example, OMHE is an output
message format suited for medical devices such as pedometers, blood
glucose meters, and blood pressure meters, weight scales, and other
hardware.
I think OMHE is a good indicator of how machines in the future will be communicating with us, and each other, via microsyntax.
For more information, please refer to the OHME project.
