ISO/IEEE 11073 PHD adapter board for standardization of legacy healthcare device

As society is aging, many personal devices for healthcare have recently been developed. In response to the increase in the individual development of health devices, the ISO/IEEE 11073 PHD standard has been established for the gathering of health measurement data. However, many existing healthcare devices have not been standardized because of standardization cost and implementation difficulties. In this paper, we propose an implementation model of standardization for legacy healthcare devices which do not follow the 11073 PHD standard. The proposed system generates standard PHD protocol message blocks using legacy device information, and the generated protocol message blocks are working in the adapter board. For the experiments, we test the proposed system with two healthcare devices: blood pressure, weighting scale. The proposed system has an advantage that even if the user doesn´t know the standard in detail, the user can easily standardize the non-standard healthcare devices.