A multimedia medical database component for a dialysis telemedicine application

Author

Kim, Il Kon ; Choi, Won Ki ; Winchester, James F. ; Alaoui, Adil ; Mun, Seong Ki

Author_Institution

Med. Center, Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

428

Lastpage

435

Abstract

With the aim of increasing the efficiency of distributed multimedia medical databases in terms of the clinical consulting process, we propose a multimedia medical database component for a dialysis telemedicine application to manage external data access using distributed middleware standardizations. External data access to distributed multimedia medical databases consists of a collection of software components that interact with each other using a common set of system-level interfaces defined by DCOM and CORBA. External data access interfaces consist of individual DCOM and CORBA interfaces, a DCOM-CORBA connection interface, and DCOM/CORBA interfaces to legacy data. With our current focus on the seamless integration of component and non-component programs in medical databases, we support a telemedicine system which allows the distribution of multimedia medical data

Keywords

application program interfaces; client-server systems; distributed databases; distributed object management; medical information systems; multimedia databases; patient treatment; query processing; standardisation; telemedicine; CORBA interface; DCOM interface; DCOM-CORBA connection interface; DCOM/CORBA interfaces; clinical consulting process; dialysis telemedicine application; distributed middleware standardizations; distributed multimedia medical databases; external data access interfaces; external data access management; legacy data; software components; system-level interfaces; Application software; Biomedical imaging; Cameras; Distributed databases; Medical diagnostic imaging; Multimedia databases; Multimedia systems; Standardization; Stethoscope; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Medical Technology Symposium, 1998. Proceedings. Pacific

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8667-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACMED.1998.769988

Filename

769988