Integration of CEN/TC251/PT5-021 “VITAL” preENV standard and of “DICOM supplement 30.0” into a telemedicine system for vital signs monitoring from home

Author

Anagnostaki, A. ; Kyriacou, E. ; Reynolds, M. ; Pavlopoulos, S. ; Koutsouris, D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1368

Abstract

This study investigates the applicability of two `standards´ addressing the robust interchange of waveform and related medical data, namely of the CEN/TC251/PT5-021 Vital Signs Information Representation (VITAL) preENV standard and the DICOM Supplement 30.0, in the context of a telemedicine application for the vital signs monitoring from their home of patients needing after-hospitalization attendance. This paper presents an object-oriented design with UML of a class hierarchy for exchanging 3-lead ECG, pulse rate, blood pressure and SpO₂ data, as well as performing alert and overall data management at the remote HealthCare Center. It also summarizes the results of the two `standards´ validation and the integration of both codification schemes into the development of the telemedicine platform

Keywords

PACS; client-server systems; object-oriented methods; open systems; patient monitoring; standardisation; telemedicine; transport protocols; CEN/TC251/PT5-021 VITAL preENV standard; DICOM Supplement 30.0; Unified Modeling Language; blood pressure data; client-server system; codification schemes; home vital signs monitoring; information model; medical data; object-oriented design; open systems; pulse oximetry data; pulse rate data; robust interchange; standards validation; telemedicine system; three-lead ECG data; vital signs information representation; waveform interchange; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; DICOM; Electrocardiography; Information representation; Patient monitoring; Remote monitoring; Robustness; Telemedicine; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6465-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2000.897993

Filename

897993