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Lili Wei1, Sujuan Hou1, Qiuxia Liu1
1Department of Radiology, Tangshan Gongren Hospital, Tangshan, Hebei 063000, China.
Abstract:
This paper presents an in-depth study and analysis of clinical care of patients with hyperthyroidism using wearable medical devices in the context of medical IoT scenarios. According to the use scenario of the gateway and the connectivity of the equipment, the hardware architecture, hardware interfaces, functionality, and performance of the gateway were briefly designed, so as to monitor patients with hyperthyroidism more comprehensively and save labor costs. The gateway can provide access to different devices and adaptation functions to different hardware interfaces and provide hardware support for the subsequent deployment of the proposed new medical communication protocols and related information systems. A medical data convergence information system based on multidevice management and multiprotocol parsing was designed and implemented. The system enables the management and configuration of different medical devices and access to data through the targeted parsing of the underlying medical device communication protocols. The system also provides the automatic adaptation of multiple types of underlying medical device communication protocols and automatic parsing of multiple versions and can provide multiple devices to process fused data streams or device information and data from a single device. The use of event-driven asynchronous communication eliminates the tight dependency on service invocation in the synchronous communication approach. The use of a metadata-based data model structure enables model extensions to accommodate the impact of iterative business requirements on the database structure. Real-time patient physiological data transmission for intraoperative monitoring based on the MQTT protocol and video transmission for intraoperative patient monitoring based on the RTMP protocol were implemented. The development of the intelligent medical monitoring service system was completed, and the system was tested, optimized, and deployed. The functionality and performance of the system were tested, the performance issue of slow query speed was optimized, and the deployment of the project using Docker containers was automated.
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