4. Implementation Issues
The objective of the proof-of-concept prototype is to show how mobile Web services can be effectively
used in remote patient health monitoring. The Web service is designed using RESTful principals in Python
programming language and based on the generic framework for mobile Web services provisioning we proposed
in [9]. Standard Python library comes with a lightweight Web server that can provide the essential
functionalities of HTTP-based service requests and methods (ex. GET and POST). The Python-based REST
Framework Web. py [10] is used to handle the low-level details of Web service developments such as protocols,
sockets, and process management.