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Cardiomedia: a multimedia portable medical record on optical memory card
D Delamarre1, S Croci, A Baskurt
1Département d'Information Médicale CHU de Rennes.
Insights
The CARDIOMEDIA project developed a multimedia data card for coronary patients, improving follow-up care. This optical card stores diverse health data, enhancing patient management and reducing redundant examinations.
Area of Science:
- Medical Informatics
- Cardiology
- Health Information Technology
Background:
- Effective patient follow-up after angioplasty is crucial.
- Current data sharing methods between healthcare facilities can be inefficient.
- Integrating diverse patient data for seamless access poses a challenge.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and evaluate the CARDIOMEDIA multimedia data record on an optical card.
- To improve patient follow-up and optimize healthcare examinations for angioplasty patients.
- To create a comprehensive, accessible patient record for enhanced medical care.
Main Methods:
- Utilizing optical cards for large-scale data storage.
- Implementing the DICOM format for medical image exchange and management.
- Employing HTML format and web intranet for multimedia record integration and an intuitive interface.
Main Results:
- Successful creation of a specialized coronary multimedia data record.
- Demonstrated feasibility of storing text, coronarography images/sequences, and ECG signals.
- Enabled efficient data access for emergency consultations and improved patient follow-up.
Conclusions:
- The CARDIOMEDIA optical card offers a viable solution for integrated patient data management.
- This technology optimizes healthcare resource utilization and enhances patient care continuity.
- The system facilitates better communication between different healthcare providers.
Abstract:
The main objective of the CARDIOMEDIA project is to produce and evaluate a coronarian multimedia data record stored on an optical card. The experimentation concerns patients treated by angioplasty at university hospital of Rennes. Often patients treated in the Regional University Hospital are followed up by another Health structure closer to their home. The patient leaves hospital with his card, which is directly available elsewhere for emergency or for consultation. This will optimize the number of examinations and offer a better patient follow-up. The CARDIOMEDIA card is a specialized record which includes various data type: text, image, image sequence of coronarography and ECG signal. For this purpose optical card with its large memory size is very convenient. For medical imaging, we use in this project the DICOM format for image exchange and management, it is combined with a CARDIOMEDIA specific compressing software. For multimedia record, the HTML format and web intranet method are chosen, this allows intuitive interface which can combine various data type and helpers like DICOM image viewer.