COMMUNICATION AND INTEGRATION OF HEALTH RELATED DATA IN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS USING INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL STANDARDS

Electronic Health Records can be seen as a pool for various health related data, where also different types of structured data can be stored. International standards serve as a unified framework for data communication and storage. We take different types of data sources as examples: a pulse oximeter, blood pressure monitor and a simple weighing scale. The data is collected at a single mobile device, where they are converted to corresponding ISO/IEEE 11073 profiles respectively and then communicated to a central EHR server via HL7 messages. The whole communication and storage is done without the classical media break fully electronically.