Plug-and-Play and Network-Capable Medical Instrumentation and Database with a Complete Healthcare Technology Suite: MediCAN

McKneely, Paul K.; Chapman, Frank M.; Gurkan, Deniz

doi:10.1109/hcmdss-mdpnp.2007.29

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“…MediCAN™ technology suite creates the interfacing hardware and related communication protocol in an open standard fashion for instruments to network in any healthcare environment. MediCAN™ system works towards a similar goal as ISO/IEEE 11073 [33,34,35] in being a candidate to become an open standard. MediCAN™ addresses communication services and protocol definitions based on Control Area Network (CAN) communication.…”

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Interoperable Medical Instrument Networking and Access System with Security Considerations for Critical Care

Gurkan

Merchant

2010

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

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The recent influx of electronic medical records in the health care field, coupled with the need of providing continuous care to patients in the critical care environment, has driven the need for interoperability of medical devices. Open standards are needed to support flexible processes and interoperability of medical devices, especially in intensive care units. In this paper, we present an interoperable networking and access architecture based on the CAN protocol. Predictability of the delay of medical data reports is a desirable attribute that can be realized using a tightly-coupled system architecture. Our simulations on network architecture demonstrate that a bounded delay for event reports offers predictability. In addition, we address security issues related to the storage of electronic medical records. We present a set of open source tools and tests to identify the security breaches, and appropriate measures that can be implemented to be compliant with the HIPAA rules.

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Interoperable Medical Instrument Networking and Access System with Security Considerations for Critical Care

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2010

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“…MediCAN is a solution proposed by McKneely et al [9] and is described as a vendor-independent network architecture for interfacing medical devices based on proprietary protocols that are built on top of UDP/TCP as well as CAN-Bus. There is no direct communication between the devices and the access to the closed network of medical devices is controlled by a proxy server.…”

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A concept for a medical device plug-and-play architecture based on web services

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Medical device interoperability is still an issue. Standards exist only for specific areas like HL7 and DICOM, or have not been widely adopted like ISO/IEEE 11073 except for the domain information model at the semantic level. An approach that covers interoperability below the semantics is proposed. It is based on Web services which are widely accepted outside the medical device application domain. In particular the architecture is build on the upcoming Device Profile for Web Services (DPWS). It is a collection of existing Web services specifications for service discovery, interface description, event notification, and security. It is designed for resource-constrained devices and thus seems to be suitable as a basis for medical device plug-and-play.

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Networking and plug-and-play of bedside medical instruments

Thongpithoonrat

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Gumudavelli

et al. 2008

2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

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Medical device manufacturers continuously improve instruments with more capabilities at the point of care such as the bedside, operating room, intensive care unit, or emergency room. The instruments are in turn becoming more sophisticated; however, the operation of an instrument is still expected to be locally done by authorized medical personnel. The measurements from these instruments are stored using archaic methods such as a patient history record on a paper. The access to these records is cumbersome and not available unless the medical personnel is present at the point of care. Unfortunately, each medical instrument has its unique proprietary API (application programming interface - if any) to provide automated and electronic access to monitoring data. Integration of these APIs requires an agreement with the manufacturers towards realization of interoperable health care networking. As long as the interoperability of instruments with a network is not possible, ubiquitous access to patient status is limited only to manual entry based systems. Manual entry is being implemented to create electronic health records, HL7, and similar initiatives. However, they do not address a bottomup automation (i.e. from instrument and patient bed side up) to leverage the mature networking technologies in a health care setting. This paper demonstrates an attempt to realize an interoperable medical instrument interface for networking using MediCAN technology suite as an open standard. We will present the approach with a comparison study of a similar initiative led by ISO/IEEE 11073 standards.

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Plug-and-Play and Network-Capable Medical Instrumentation and Database with a Complete Healthcare Technology Suite: MediCAN

Cited by 5 publications

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Interoperable Medical Instrument Networking and Access System with Security Considerations for Critical Care

Interoperable Medical Instrument Networking and Access System with Security Considerations for Critical Care

A concept for a medical device plug-and-play architecture based on web services

Networking and plug-and-play of bedside medical instruments

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