title: Vital signs monitoring from home with open systems.
abstract: This study investigates the applicability of a novel codification scheme based on two healthcare informatics standards (namely the VITAL (ENV 13734) and DICOM Sup. 30 Waveform Interchange) in addressing the robust interchange of waveform and medical data in remote healthcare applications. To further address system validation and clinical acceptance issues, pilots were set-up between home-monitoring stations and a hospital-based telemedicine consultation center. The pilots focused in assessing applicability, technical feasibility and performance of the proposed codification scheme based on the two standards. This paper presents the system and services requirements as studied for a home-care application, the design goals for the preservation of security stature, the practical issues of validation and the results of integrating these codification schemes into a commercial patient connected device.
authors.affiliation: National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pavlopoulos
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Anagnostaki
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Koutsouris
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lymberis
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Levene
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reynolds
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Georgiadis
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lambrinoudakis
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gritzalis
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006115:Greece; D018575:Home Care Services, Hospital-Based; D006801:Humans; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation*