Using Continua Health Alliance Standards - Implementation and Experiences of IEEE 11073

In this article a brief overview about the experiences made during the implementation of IEEE 11073-10415 standard is given. The requirement to realize this standard comes from the German research project WohnSelbst. The main focus of the research project is to improve the compliance of elderly people in case of disease in their own home environment. Therefore the usages of remote patient monitoring devices are necessary, but a high degree of interoperability should be assured. The challenge is to integrate the implementation of standards into the given system architecture of the research project and the evaluation of the application. This article introduces the necessary standards and our experiences implementing a prototype personal health system.