IEEE 11073 and connected health: Preparing personal health devices for the Internet

The Internet of Things paradigm enables a new set of Internet applications and services. Some of these new applications are related with healthcare and the Connected Health vision. On the other hand, the increasing availability of new connected Personal Health Devices enables a new type of information to be available in the Internet: health information. In this context, this paper presents and discusses current Connected Health solutions, and how they fit into IoT paradigm. It is presented how IEEE 11073 family of standards may enable a truly and interoperable health IoT architecture. It is presented a IEEE 11073 implementation aimed at portable devices, namely Antidote. Also a proposal that uses TCP as IEEE 11073 transport method is also shown. Moreover, it is presented a work in progress solution to enable PHDs to connect directly to the Internet using IEEE 11073 and CoAP protocol.