Management of serial ECGs and control strategies for the comparison process

Serial ECG management and control of the comparison process should be dynamically driven by patient data. The functional architecture requirements are specified for a computerized ECG processing system integrating serial analysis. The concepts of reference investigations and temporal events are first explained. A conceptual reference model is proposed which stratifies the serial analysis process into a few generic strategies which will be instantiated into several types of serial comparison processing tasks as a function of the clinical evolution of the patient. This model is an extension of the OEDIPE core data model developed and implemented during the AIM #2026 project.