Developing novel design patterns in information visualization for mobile health systems

With the advances of information technology, there're broad prospects for mobile health information systems. In mobile health, information visualization plays an important role. The challenges are supporting heterogeneous devices, meeting a variety of user requirements and so on. Design patterns provide an effective solution to these problems. However, in mobile health area, there is seldom a systematic approach applying the design patterns to implement information visualization. In this paper, we elaborate how design patterns are applied to execute information visualization of mobile health systems. We present a modified MVC pattern according to requirements of the system. We also propose a “regulation-composite” pattern based on general-purpose patterns. By using both patterns, we actualize a visualization platform of mobile health system and facilitate its extensibility and flexibility. The methods used in this paper can provide a strategy for information visualization.