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Open EMR Server

A project log for Hospital in a Toilet

Embed sensors into your toilet to monitor your health daily

evan-dougalEvan Dougal 08/20/2014 at 21:080 Comments

Data is collected from the embedded sensors and sent to the user’s smartphone via bluetooth. An application running on the phone sends it to an Open EMR server (http://www.open-emr.org/), which is an open source electronic medical records server, based on a LAMP stack. 

The open EMR server has space in the database for storing the urine information, and several php scripts are used to store urine information. Other sensor information can easily be added to the database. The smartphone application can also pull data from the server to show the user past hydration data. The server also supports querying for specific data, for example, all urine data between two dates. 

A major concern for the future is security. Protecting people's medical information is of utmost importance, so in the future all of the communications with the server should be encrypted. Additionally, it would be better not to store all of the information on a centralized server (where hackers that break into the server can access all of the data at once), but rather use the patient's own personal computer for storage. 

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