Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Medical Technology Symposium, 1998. Proceedings. Pacific
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8667-7
DOI :
10.1109/PACMED.1998.769988
