Development of a tele-healthcare system based on the HL7 standard

Author

Kuyeon Lee ; Juyoung Park ; Kyungtae Kang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Hanyang Univ., Ansan, South Korea

fYear

2014

fDate

22-25 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A prototype tele-healthcare system based on the HL7 standard includes an electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring system and an HL7 interface. The ECG monitoring system can acquire ECG signals using Bluetooth, and display them in real time. The HL7 interface converts the measured data to the HL7 message format for interoperability. The proposed system is extensible, and can easily be integrated with other mobile devices via Bluetooth. Test results and performance evaluation show that the system is able to provide a tele-monitoring service, irrespective of patients´ locations, and suggest that it can make a significant contribution to a hospital information system.

Keywords

Bluetooth; biomedical telemetry; data acquisition; display instrumentation; electrocardiography; electronic data interchange; hospitals; medical information systems; mobile computing; open systems; patient monitoring; real-time systems; standards; telemedicine; Bluetooth; ECG monitoring system; ECG signal acquisition; HL7 interface; HL7 message format; HL7 standard; electrocardiogram monitoring system; hospital information system; interoperability; measured data conversion; mobile devices; patient locations; performance evaluation; real time ECG signal display; telehealthcare system development; telehealthcare system prototype; telemonitoring service;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics (ISCE 2014), The 18th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

JeJu Island

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCE.2014.6884290

Filename

6884290