Implementation of an end-to-end standard-based patient monitoring solution
A proof-of-concept design of a patient monitoring solution for intensive care unit environments has been presented. It is end-to-end standard-based, using ISO/IEEE 11073 (X73) in the bedside environment and EN13606 to communicate the information to an electronic healthcare record (EHR) server. At the bedside end, the system is a plug-and-play sensor network communicating with a gateway that collects medical information and sends the data to a monitoring server. The monitoring server transforms this information into an EN13606 extract to be stored on the EHR server. The system has been implemented to comply with the last X73 and EN13606 available versions and tested in a laboratory environment to demonstrate the feasibility of an end-to-end standard-based solution. ; This research work has been financially supported in part by projects PI05-0847, PI05-1416 and G03/117 from Fondo de investigaciones Sanitarias, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo (Spanish Government); TSI2005-07068-C02-01 and TSI2004-04940-C02-01 from Ministerio de Educatio´n y Ciencia (Spanish Government), and a personal grant to Miguel Galarraga from Departmento de Salud (Navarra Regional Government).