Title :
Selection of a local area network for patient care management
Author_Institution :
Spacelabs, Redmond, WA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. The design criteria for a digital communication system in the critical care area are presented. The three basic protocol types, namely, polling, token passing, and contention and the implementation of an industry standard bus topology and contention protocol are briefly considered
Keywords :
local area networks; medical computing; patient care; contention protocol; digital communication system; industry standard bus topology; local area network; patient care management; polling; token passing; Access protocols; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer network reliability; Computer networks; Digital communication; Hospitals; Local area networks; Manufacturing industries; Network topology; Redundancy;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96351
