A Novel System Architecture for Efficient Management of Skiing Injuries

Mobile applications and the emergence of cloud computing are considered as main drivers of extending the scope of health services and empowering the eHealth, resulting in a new branch developed very rapidly in recent years, named mHealth, the use of mobile applications for healthcare. In this paper, we propose a system architecture for ski injury registration. Our research work is inspired by the need of integrating mHealth apps in managing skiing injuries to provide higher healthcare service quality and faster availability of data. Our approach focuses both on the design of interfaces for mobile devices and presenting an architecture for the digital ski injury registration system. The design of the registration system is intended to greatly simplify the workflow between ski patrollers and the medical centers and help improve healthcare services. By the use of this system, the ski patroller will be able to provide some useful information to the doctors at the hospital in advance and in a timely manner. We employ user-centered design while developing the mobile interfaces for the ski patrollers, the nurses and the doctors. We conducted a test of a pilot of the ski patroller system in collaboration with the ski patroller in Trysil, Norway. The test had two-evaluation points and based on the results of the tests, we obtained implications for improving the design of mobile interfaces for the proposed architecture.