Development of u-House Gateway for u-Healthcare.
10.4258/jksmi.2009.15.4.465
- Author:
Dongwoo RO
1
;
Sooyoung YOO
;
Kyungwoo CHEON
;
Jinwook CHOI
Author Information
1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Korea. jinchoi@snu.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Ubiquitous Healthcare;
Home Health Monitoring;
Biosignal Data;
MFER;
FLAC
- MeSH:
Delivery of Health Care
- From:Journal of Korean Society of Medical Informatics
2009;15(4):465-474
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: Ubiquitous healthcare (u-Healthcare) is an emerging paradigm in the healthcare environment. One of the most promising applications for u-Healthcare is the ubiquitous home health monitoring system. This paper addresses two significant challenges in the successful application of the ubiquitous home health monitoring system: the uniform integration of measured biosignal data and easy access to monitored biosignal data. METHODS: We used the Medical waveform description Format Encoding Rule (MFER) standard to encode biosignal data. A web-based MFER upload ActiveX control was designed and implemented to transfer MFER files to the central repository server in a near real-time basis. All of the integrated biosignal data were then accessed and managed through the central repository server. RESULTS: We developed a u-House server that can serve as a uniform data transferer to integrate measured biosignal data from u-House homes into the remote central repository server. We developed user-friendly web services that allow users to easily search and view monitored biosignal data. CONCLUSION: The results of this study suggest that the MFER standard can be easily adapted to u-Healthcare systems and that a web-based ubiquitous home health monitoring system has advantages of ubiquitous access and scalability.
