IEEE
Starts Work on Three Health Informatics Standards
Proposed
Standards To Cover Dialysis Devices, Management Information Base
Element Objects, and Medical Device Client Services
Contact:
Karen McCabe +1 732 562 3824, k.mccabe@ieee.org
PISCATAWAY,
N.J., April 2, 2002 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Standards Board has
approved the start of work on three point-of-care health informatics
standards. The first, IEEE P1073.1.3.16, enables communication
for renal intensive care and dialysis devices. The second, IEEE
P1073.2.1.2, focuses on Management Information Base (MIB) element
objects. And the third, IEEE P1073.2.3.2, addresses services for
medical devices to act as clients of information provided from
other healthcare information systems.
IEEE P1073.1.3.16
"Health Informatics - Point-of-Care Medical Device Communication
- Device Specialization - Dialysis Device" will standardize
how dialysis devices communicate with other medical devices and
information systems. It will define data models and semantics
for renal intensive care devices, specializing definitions from
other IEEE 1073™ standards and leveraging specifications
from related 1073 device specializations, e.g., infusion devices,
pulse-oximeter, blood pressure, temperature and weighing scale.
This will allow for plug-and-play interoperability and make information
from dialysis devices easier to acquire and integrate into
health care information infrastructures.
IEEE P1073.2.1.2
"Health Informatics - Point-of-Care Medical Device Communication
- Device Specialization - Application Profiles - MIB Elements"
will create a single document with all definitions for non-transport-specific
MIB element objects used in point-of-care medical device communications.
It also will contain references to MIB element definitions in
other IEEE 1073 standards, such as transport standards. Typically,
MIB elements are used for network management and for passing information
from transport layers to application service layers in a
communications system.
IEEE P1073.2.3.2
"Health Informatics - Point-of-Care Medical Device Communication
- Device Specialization - Application Profiles - Optional Package,
Symmetric Communication" will seek to standardize the communications
interface so medical devices can function as clients of data provided
from remote computerized healthcare information systems in clinical
environments. Agent devices primarily act as servers of information
to other managers systems, but in some cases they can also benefit
from external data and services.
This standard
will encompass those devices that customize their operation based
on patient information, such as patient name, height, weight,
sex and age. Possible applications for it include pharmacokinetic
drug dosing models for infusion devices or devices that acquire
drug dosing and pharmacy order information so the right drug is
delivered to the right patient at the right dosage.
The three
proposed standards build on the IEEE 1073-1996™ "Standard
for Medical Device Communications," which allows patient-connected
bedside medical devices to be easily linked to patient care information
systems. This standard enables comprehensive data capture from
infusion pumps, ventilators, patient monitors and other devices
connected to acutely ill patients.
IEEE P1073.1.3.16,
IEEE P1073.2.1.2 and IEEE P1073.2.3.2 are sponsored by the IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE-SA Working Groups
typically contain volunteers representing industry, government,
academia, trade, and scientific organizations. Volunteers with
expertise in the fields covered by these proposed standards are
invited to help develop them. Information is available online
at: http://ieee1073.org/ .
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