Conception and realization of a REST-based application programming interface for intersession-management in psychology

Mobile software applications have become one enabler in the field of medical treatments. This is comprehensible, since it enables “open access to details about illnesses, diseases, health promotion and healthcare”. Especially in the psychological branch, Home-Based Therapy and medical mobile apps are widespread. Furthermore, the analysis of patient data is difficult because it is rarely received digitally and can hardly be processed. Since 2017, the Alps-Adria-University Klagenfurt has been trying to improve the research progress in this field, exceedingly in the data collection of the patient’s Intersession processes. In detail, they want to develop a multi-device platform to collect, analyse, illustrate and process the data of the patients as simple as possible. In times of Big Data and Public Health Databases, the collection of information has carried through and there is a huge amount of ways to gather as much information as possible. The most common form is probably the Application Programming Interface, which enables easy communication between applications and offers a good possibility to save data to a server.