Intensive care window: real-time monitoring and analysis in the intensive care environment.
This paper introduces a novel, open-source middleware framework for communication with medical devices and an application using the middleware named intensive care window (ICW). The middleware enables communication with intensive care unit bedside-installed medical devices over standard and proprietary communication protocol stacks. The ICW application facilitates the acquisition of vital signs and physiological parameters exported from patient-attached medical devices and sensors. Moreover, ICW provides runtime and post-analysis procedures for data annotation, data visualization, data query, and analysis. The ICW application can be deployed as a stand-alone solution or in conjunction with existing clinical information systems providing a holistic solution to inpatient medical condition monitoring, early diagnosis, and prognosis.
Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus. nstylianides@gmail.com
Nikolas
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Stylianides
Marios D
MD
Dikaiakos
Harald
H
Gjermundrød
George
G
Panayi
Theodoros
T
Kyprianou
D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine; D013686:Telemetry; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D055986:Vital Signs