Integration of IEEE 1451 and HL7 Exchanging Information for Patients’ Sensor Data

HL7 (Health Level 7) is a standard developed for exchanging incompatible healthcare information generated from programs or devices among heterogenous medical information systems. At present, HL7 is growing as a global standard. However, the HL7 standard does not support effective methods for treating data from various medical sensors, especially from mobile sensors. As ubiquitous systems are growing, HL7 must communicate with various medical transducers. In the area of sensor fields, IEEE 1451 is a group of standards for controlling transducers and for communicating data from/to various transducers. In this paper, we present the possibility of interoperability between the two standards, i.e., HL7 and IEEE 1451. After we present a method to integrate them and show the preliminary results of this approach

A Generic Architecture for Integrating Health Monitoring and Advanced Care Provisioning

This paper presents a novel approach for advanced person- alized care and health services. It consists of four tiers and presents a high level of openness, privacy and manageability compared to existing systems. Moreover, the architecture is driven by realistic underlying business opportunities and is validated through the design of multiple scenarios.status: publishe

Implementation and analysis of the ISO/IEC/IEEE P21451-1 draft standard for a smart transducer interface common network services and its applications in the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) has rapidly become the paradigm for the creation and improvement of new and old Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), but how much longer can this development of IoT devices, networks, and services be sustained? The past decade has seen incredible growth in internet connected devices, with current estimates placing the number of such devices at about 20 billion in 2017, not including personal computers, smart phones, and tablets. This has created a massive market for these devices, with each company making their own applications, protocols, and services. Since these markets are competitive, there originally was no incentive to design systems, which were built to have a common protocol to enable interoperability between systems. This can pose a large integration effort if two or more of these systems need to communicate together as part of a larger system. The problem is compounded if these systems utilize two different physical layers or talk using two different protocols. The revitalization of the IEEE 1451 family of standards can solve this problem. The work in this thesis proposes to solve the integration problem by providing a common set of services and protocols for devices. This work provides the basis for a common architectural foundation for future IoT development. The contributions of this thesis include a renewal of the language and intent of the IEEE P21451-1 draft standard, development of example implementations to be included in the standard, and the development of Open Source hardware and software aimed at lowering the cost of adopting this standard