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Development of HL7 V 2.5 Middleware for Patient Monitoring Device

환자감시장치를 위한 HL7 V2.5 미들웨어의 개발

  • 김형회 (부산대학교 의과대학 의료정보학과) ;
  • 조훈 (경북대학교 의과대학 의료정보학과) ;
  • 트란퉁 (경북대학교 의료정보학과) ;
  • 홍해숙 (경북대학교 간호대학 간호학과) ;
  • 김화선 (경북대학교 의료정보학과)
  • Published : 2007.09.01
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Abstract

A hospital room has multiple patient monitoring devices at the bedside to monitor his or her status. However, vital sign monitors, ventilator and other bedside devices are made by a variety of different manufacturers and often cannot easily interface to the hospital information system. Medical environments incorporate complex and integrated data networks to transfer vast amounts of patient information, such as images, waveforms, and other forms of digital data. Hence, to assure interoperability of images, waveforms and patient data, Health Level Seven (HL7) was developed as an international standard to facilitate the communicating and storing of medical data. In this study, we developed middleware capable of receiving data from mCare 300 vital signs monitoring devices and converting the data to HL7 data format. The HL 7 middleware streamline clinical workflow and support patients. Therefore, clinical expertise are empowered to respond to dynamic healthcare situation as soon as they emerged, and consequently quality of care while helping to reduce the length of a patient's stay in a hospital.

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