To support rapid and cost-effective development of m-health applications, Laakko et al. (2008) implemented UPHIAC (Ubiquitous Personal Health Information Access) platform. They proposed an m-health application framework based on UPHIAC, which can be used for information exchange between healthcare professionals, patients, and measurement devices. The goal of the framework is to provide a set of core classes to accomplish basic functionalities needed in m-health apps. It contains five components: measurement,
storage, network, UPHIAC core, and user interface. Mobile phones are used to connect medical measurement devices and back-end information systems in this case. An operational prototype for tele-ECG (electrocardiogram) was implemented as an example use case of the platform. The example use case showed that the platform could be used as a basis to develop new applications for specific purposes.