Authors:
Mari Ibañez
1
;
Álvaro Reina Nieves
1
;
Jaime Martínez Jiménez
1
;
Natividad Martinez Madrid
1
and
Ralf Seepold
2
Affiliations:
1
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
;
2
University of Applied Sciences Konstanz, Germany
Keyword(s):
Home healthcare, Telecare, UPnP, HL7, OSGi.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Cloud Computing
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
e-Health
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Healthcare Management Systems
;
ICT, Ageing and Disability
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Medical and Nursing Informatics
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Software Systems in Medicine
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Telemedicine
Abstract:
Currently, there is a great number of telemedicine devices that can be connected to a computer in order to collect medical data of a patient, but these devices usually use proprietary protocols with a low level of interoperability. This paper proposes the use of a standardized protocol like UPnP to enhance the diffusion and utilization of a telemedicine device. This work presents an UPnP wrapper that allows announcing, discovering and managing of those telemedicine devices into an UPnP network. Additionally, the integration of this wrapper into an OSGi service platform allows the use of a telemedicine device by other services/applications that can need the medical data.