Aspects of Standardisationfor Point-of-Care Solutions and Remote Home Monitoring Services
Martin Wulf Gerdes, Dafferianto Trinugroho, Rune Werner Fensli · 2013
The health care services are focusing on seamless healthcare and defining typical patient flow conditions, where a close follow-up from the patient’s home after hospital treatment can be important in order to avoid readmissions. In several international projects different technological solutions have been developed with the aim of obtaining an international standardized solution from end-to-end perspective in the information chain, where vital signs data are measured in the patient’s home and transmitted to the hospital specialist. This is; however, a complex task without any clear recommendations, which leads to local variations in the implementations and to island solutions. The consequence will be no or limited interoperability of systems across organizations and local boundaries of services. In this paper we will highlight different levels of standards and give some recommendations for future research, based on a typical scenario for a remote home monitoring situation.