ISO/IEEE 11073 PHD message generation toolkit to standardize healthcare device

Area of Science:

• Biomedical Engineering
• Health Informatics
• Medical Device Technology

Background:

• The growing senior population necessitates advanced healthcare devices and services.
• Standardization for interoperability is crucial for the healthcare technology market.
• Existing IEEE 11073 Personal Health Device (PHD) standards are complex and difficult for manufacturers to implement.

Purpose of the Study:

• To develop a toolkit for easily standardizing existing non-standard healthcare devices.
• To simplify the implementation of IEEE 11073 PHD communication modules for device manufacturers.

Main Methods:

• A standard message generation toolkit was proposed.
• The toolkit generates standard PHD messages from device information.
• A standard state machine file adapts generated messages to specific devices.

Main Results:

• The toolkit was tested on blood pressure monitors, weighting scales, and glucose meters.
• Successful standardization of non-standard healthcare devices was demonstrated.
• The toolkit enables standardization without deep knowledge of the PHD standard.

Conclusions:

• The proposed toolkit significantly simplifies the standardization of healthcare devices.
• It facilitates wider adoption of the IEEE 11073 PHD standard.
• This promotes greater interoperability in the connected health ecosystem.