ISO/IEEE 11073
The standards are targeted at both point-of-care devices (ventilators, infusion pumps, ECG, etc.)
and personal health and fitness devices (such as glucose monitors, pulse oximeters, weighing scales, medication dispensers and activity monitors) and at continuing and acute care devices (such as pulse oximeters, ventilators and infusion pumps).
They comprise a family of standards that can be layered together to provide connectivity optimized for the specific devices being interfaced.
Within this, objects and their arrangement in a Domain Information Model for vital signs data transmission are defined.
The common background for assembly and transmission of objects and their attributes are defined in this standard.
The arrangement of two or more medical devices as a system, so that the components are possible to understand and to interact, are the basic idea of this principle.
Besides the plain agent-manager application, hybrid systems over multiple stages are possible.
This module is the interface between a proprietary (eventually native) protocol and the ISO/IEEE (VITAL) object world.
MMOs (Managed Medical Objects) are stored hierarchically within a tree structure in a form named Domain Information Model (DIM).
The implementation of the MDIB (Medical Device Information Base) and their functionality is out of the scope of the standard.
An element of the application layer, which is responsible for the establishment, termination and control of associations between two or more communication parties (programs).
Services for the data exchange of MMOs (Managed Medical Objects) between Agent-Manager systems, are defined in this module.
Through reports, which can be defined detailed down to the single object attribute, it is possible to trigger complex operations in Agent or Manager, through this services.
The package that defines objects, to map medical vital signs data.
As an example, the FastPeriCfgScanner object (Fast Periodic Configurable Scanner) is specially constructed for the requirements of real-time data exchange in conjunction with the RealTimeSampleArray object to transmit live data from ECG devices.
Annotation by the author: From a historic view, the standard was developed for the first time in the early 90s, this package has to be reconstructed.
The finite-state machine regulates the synchronization of an Agent Manager system over different conditions.
The Manager evaluates this report and creates the objects defined here in his own MDIB copy.
The Agent creates the scanner object in his own MDIB and sends the Manager a response message.
Android 4.0 implements support for IEEE 11073 via the BluetoothHealth class NIST Standard Conformance Tools Archived 2008-10-07 at the Wayback Machine 11073 Web site ZigBee provides support for IEEE 1073 via the ZigBee Health Care Profile (ZHCP)
