Research Article
A Flexible Vital Sign Representation Framework for oile Healtcare
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361670, author={Hailiang Mei and Ing Widya and Aart van Halteren and Bayu Erfianto}, title={A Flexible Vital Sign Representation Framework for oile Healtcare}, proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH}, year={2007}, month={5}, keywords={Vital sign representation flexibility M-health}, doi={10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361670} }- Hailiang Mei
Ing Widya
Aart van Halteren
Bayu Erfianto
Year: 2007
A Flexible Vital Sign Representation Framework for oile Healtcare
PERVASIVEHEALTH
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PCTHEALTH.2006.361670
Abstract
This paper proposes a framework for patient's vital sign representations. This framework offers the flexibility to extend or to augment represented vital signs, e.g. with trend signs or professional's annotations. It further enables multi standard representations of vital signs and meta-level information for processing of represented vital signs. Vital signs represented in accordance with this framework are therefore suitable for forwarding, processing and rendering within a heterogeneous mobile environment which applies different formatting standards or use a diversity of wireless communication technologies of different quality. We analyze the needs of three mobile healthcare stakeholders to capture the requirements of vital sign representations and manipulations that have to be accommodated by the framework. The derived stakeholders' requirements are closely examined during the XML-based development of the framework. Several scenarios are presented to illustrate the benefits of the framework.
