Grant: Engage Grants Program

Life:WIRE Corp is a privately held software development company in Toronto, Ontario. Life:WIRE developed a mobile two-way interactive health management solution. The solution is both compliant with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) as well as the Health Information Patient Privacy Act (HIPPA). It uses an individual or patient's own cell phone, along with a web-enabled interface, to program, monitor and analyze their health vitals. In response to this need, Life:WIRE's mobile interaction interface is only via cellular Short Message Service (SMS) and email. Their interaction with diverse health record management systems is also limited. In order to gain additional competitive advantage they would like to develop smart phone applications and interact with diverse health care databases and comply with the PIPEDA / HIPPA privacy standards. The technology and expertise in service modeling and semantics at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) is going to be leveraged to mitigate the challenges encountered in interacting with many of the heterogeneous user devices and back end services while maintaining integrity, security, and privacy of the user's personal information. UOIT has developed a unique semantic access control technology that can potentially be used to facilitate device and back end service interoperability as well as manage access to user's private information. The most immediate value added to Life:WIRE is the ability to interact with their system over a set of diverse smart mobile devices while conforming to PIPEDA / HIPPA compliance making their service more attractive to users.