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Health-care monitoring with Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has become a major interest during the last few years. The use of efficient communication protocols is crucial in minimizing transmission delay and energy consumption of sensor nodes. In a heterogeneous WSN context, we propose, efficient mobility aware mechanisms which may be implemented in large three-tier WSN. These mechanisms must be designed...
HomeML is an XML-based format for the exchange and storage of data within smart home environments. It was originally proposed as a means of solving the issues caused by the heterogeneous nature of data recorded within such environments. In our current work we have extended upon the concepts of homeML and have subsequently developed an improved format to support the storage and exchange of sensory...
Providing a transparent and automatic communication between health information systems for the purpose of exchanging patients' data among healthcare professionals is deemed as one of the most challenging problems in eHealth. Indeed, data storage in health information systems is mainly performed in relational databases, whereas eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is seen as the de facto standard for exchanging...
This paper presents the design, prototype implementation and results of two cooperating infrastructures for a vital sign-based multimodal monitoring. The building-embedded and wearable systems provide complementary measurements in human and share a data transfer channel where possible. Managed by the common server, both systems are configurable in order to follow the subject's state and specific needs...
The clinical quality is influenced by the disseminating velocity of new medical knowledge and the rate of patients that receive evidence-based clinical service. In this study, we introduced an evaluation and alerting system for the compatibility between practice guidelines and medicine practices using Arden Syntax (ESCPP) based on EGADSS. We also introduced an approach to automatically create CDA...
Common practice for healthcare organizations is to maintain locally their own files, thus causing a geographic distribution of healthcare records. On the other hand, healthcare personnel treating a patient needs access to previous diagnosis and treatment data, maintained by various institutions in many different locations. Currently, the lack of a reliable authentication and authorization framework...
Along with the development of medical technique, workflow management becomes more and more important and workflow-based system is increasingly becoming the next generation of medical information system. Traditional systems are data-driven and medical processes are realized through data exchange; while workflow-based systems are Process-Driven, data communication is controlled by process. In this paper,...
Intra-body communication (IBC) uses the conductive human body as the communication channel for data exchange. As the bio-sensor research is moving towards portable, wearable and implantable designs, IBC has significant potential applications for personal health care. Previous IBC research mainly focused on the electromagnetic (EM) IBC scheme, which resulted in low data rate (kbps). In this paper,...
An approach for ensuring legitimate data transfers of an individual within a remote healthcare solution. Biometric traits and networking are discussed for clarification of the approach. In this approach, a biometric solution is identified as a fingerprint scanner for use in a personal area network of the patient's home. Secure data exchange is acknowledged as a potential weakness in the transferring...
Vast quantities of data is created by utilizing sensors to gather information from patients located in intensive care units worldwide through physiological monitoring. The service oriented architectural model has emerged as a mechanism to support data interchange in a structured way to support the provision of services. The nature of critical care is such that clinicians provide a service of care,...
Increasing demand for health care services pose a number of challenges to healthcare industry and one of them is sharing health care information among heterogeneous health care information systems. Digital health care ecosystem aims at providing continues treatment process requiring seamless information sharing across multiple healthcare providers/organizations. Different health care standards and...
In every application domain, achieving interoperability among heterogenous information systems is a crucial challenge and alliances are formed to standardize data-exchange formats. In the healthcare sector, HL7-V3 provides the current international reference models for clinical and administrative documents. Codices, an Italian company, provides the PICASSO platform that uses HL7-V3 as the pivot format...
This article presents the formal work done for the ISO/IEEE P11073-20601 draft standard for health informatics - personal health device communication - application profile - optimized exchange protocol. ISO/IEEE 11073 family defines standards for device communication between agents (e.g. blood pressure monitors, weighing scales) that collect information about a person and manager (e.g., cell phone,...
Recently several organizations in the healthcare sector have produced standards and representation forms using XML. However, the introduction of these XML-based technologies is not enough to provide a means to interpret the semantics of the exchanged messages. Instead communicating medicinal information systems are hard-coded to only work together. As a result extending the systems by new parties...
Various security and privacy issues have emerged from the SOA healthcare platform. Large amounts of personal data are transmitted daily through the SOA healthcare platform. For security and privacy reasons, the exchanged data should be encapsulated and encoded by a specific standard, a customized standard even. In this study, we first focused on investigating the importance of data exchange and message...
Health Level Seven (HL7) is the standard of electronic data interchange in the health domain. In This paper, we suggest abstract structure algorithm for modeling HL7 message. Compared with other existing ones, this method optimized uHealthcare environment. When updating HL7 message structure, there is no need to compile entire code. Besides, no speed down results from repetitive request queries.
President Bush's 2004 executive order mandated the creation within the Secretary of Health and Human Services' staff of a new Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Information Technology (ONCHIT) that was tasked with creating the United States National Healthcare Information Network (NHIN). The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the 2004 and a subsequent...
This paper describes the method to create the HL7 message dynamically and make the HL7 middleware framework more efficient. The HL7 middleware framework was developed for exchanging the healthcare information in the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH). The framework is a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and it contains the HL7Central Web Service. The Web Service makes the HL7 middleware...
With the development of community healthcare, the electronic health record (EHR) has extracted more and more attention in China. Though most of the communities in megalopolis have installed the EHR system, the lack of mobility limits the further development of EHR. Because the personal digital assistant (PDA) has higher mobility and can conveniently exchange the data with the database, it can be used...
Nursing-care data in this paper are Japanese texts written by nurses which consist of answers for questions about nursing-care. The nursing-care data are collected via WWW application from many hospitals in Japan. The collected data are stored into the database. The nursing-care experts evaluate the collected data to improve nursing-care quality. Currently, the collected data are evaluated by experts...
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