COOPERATION FRAMEWORK FOR PERSONAL AND HOME CARE MO NITORING SYSTEMS
Piotr Augustyniak · Journal of Medical Informatics & Technologies · 2009
The scenarios of cooperation between personal healt hcare systems are discussed in this paper. Current telemedical solutions for home care provide the patient with a seamless d iagnosis based on selected vital parameters. The ap plication of two or more specialized systems monitoring the same subject ris es the question of possible interference and cooper ation. The cooperation between home care and wearable systems is of particular int erest, because of their complementary features. Cons iderations of various cooperation scenarios led to the specification of t hree cooperation levels with regard to the required software integration. The paper presents also the design of a cooperation protocol for two prototype surveillance systems, enabling th e use of communication resources of the stationary system to carry the mes sages of the wearable system over the wired transmi ssion channel.