Towards e-Health Device Interoperability: The Spanish Experience in the Telemedicine Research Network

Author

de Toledo, P. ; Galarraga, M. ; Martinez, I. ; Serrano, L. ; Fernandez, J. ; Pozo, F. Del

Author_Institution

Bioeng. & Telemed. Res. Centre, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid

fYear

2006

fDate

Aug. 30 2006-Sept. 3 2006

Firstpage

3258

Lastpage

3261

Abstract

The expansion of e-Health solutions is hindered by the high costs and low flexibility of home and mobile telemonitoring systems. This situation may be improved by the use of standards to design open, plug-and-play and interoperable devices. This work describes the joint efforts of three research groups in Spain towards the interoperability of their telemonitoring solutions based on the ISO11073/IEEE1073 family of standards

Keywords

IEEE standards; ISO standards; biomedical equipment; health care; telemedicine; ISO11073-IEEE1073 standards; Spanish experience; e-Health device; home telemonitoring; interoperable devices; open devices; plug-and-play devices; telemedicine research network; telemonitoring solutions; Cities and towns; Costs; Educational institutions; Government; Manufacturing; Mobile handsets; Personal area networks; Personal digital assistants; Telemedicine; Usability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS '06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

New York, NY

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0032-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259244

Filename

4462492