Author :
Spyropoulos, B. ; Botsivaly, M. ; Tzavaras, A.
Author_Institution :
Med. Instrum. Technol. Dept., Inst. (TEI) of Athens, Athens, Greece
Abstract :
The purpose of this paper is to present the status of the R&D efforts of our Laboratory concerning the development and the improvement of hardware and software means, appropriately designed to ensure Continuity of Medical Care among Primary Health-care Agencies, Hospitals and Home Care, according to existing or emerging National, European and International regulations and standards. Our R&D is presently focused on the development of an integrated prototype system, including first, improved equipment facilitating the Continuity of Care, second, software supporting Medical Decision Making during emergency-care delivery, as well as, real and virtual audio-visual monitoring of chronic and terminally ill patients at home-alike conditions, third, a Continuity of Care Record (CCR), complying with the major ANSI E2369-05 CCR, ISO 13606-1:2008 and prEN 13940 Standards, and finally, linking the CCR to appropriate semantically annotated Web-Services, providing for enhanced technical interoperability and medical clarity and simplicity.
Keywords :
ANSI standards; ISO standards; Web services; decision making; emergency services; health care; hospitals; open systems; research and development; ANSI E2369-05 CCR; European regulations; ISO 13606-1:2008; International regulations; National regulations; R&D; Web services; continuity of care record; decision making; emergency-care delivery; home care; hospitals; interoperability; medical care; prEN 13940 standards; primary health-care agencies; status report; virtual audio-visual monitoring; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Monitoring; Patents; Software; Standards; Clinical Decision Software; Continuity of Care Record (CCR); Home Care Equipment; Semantics;
