Healthcare Informatics Research

Korean Society of Medical Infomatics (대한의료정보학회)
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Development of u-House Gateway for u-Healthcare

u-Healthcare 환경을 위한 가정용 u-House 게이트웨이의 개발

Ro, Dong-Woo;Yoo, Soo-Young;Cheon, Kyung-Woo;Choi, Jin-Wook
노동우;유수영;천경우;최진욱

  • Published : 20091200
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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.

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