Feasibility study on service-based data acquisition for human signal molecule profiling database
A service-based model of human signal-molecule-profiling database (HSMPD) was proposed to prompt data acquisition of medical information from blood tests in traditional healthcare systems and to make the data be naturally converted into Health IT (HIT) services through the translational bioinformatics (TBI) community. A self-motivated mechanism to minimize the project investment was designed. The low-cost tool, called `SMP chip', will be employed in blood tests inside hospitals, which results could be decoded and stored in HSMPD automatically. Successively, HIT services derived from HSMPD will provide a stable income to support the data acquisition processes. To explore the feasibility of the model, a small-scale survey study was performed in a common hospital. The positive results indicated that the cooperation of IT, engineering, healthcare systems and TBI community could provide a self-motivated solution to build the HSMPD platform.