Telehealth for Movement Assessment: Web Services and Model-View-Controller

Telehealth and telemedicine are considered as a set of effective solutions, through which an emerging country could ensure its citizens their right for healthcare. This study is focused on designing a telehealth platform for human movement assessment, through a service-oriented approach. Service-oriented architecture presents a methodology for designing the logic of a solution, which considers the organization and usage for distributed applications. Model-based design allows specifying and analyzing interactive software applications from a semantic oriented perspective, rather than immediately approaching the implementation phase. The created model was analyzed by simulation to observe the behavior under different conditions and to verify the functional correctness of the web service. A virtual server was configured, as well as an application programming interface. This approach allowed detailed static and dynamic analysis, as well as behavioral and structural testing of the model, prior to the implementation of a web service, providing important benefits for a multidisciplinary development team.