The Medical Device Dongle: An Open-Source Standards-Based Platform for Interoperable Medical Device Connectivity

Philip Asare; Danyang Cong; Santosh G. Vattam; BaekGyu Kim; Andrew King; Oleg Sokolsky; Insup Lee; Shan Lin; Margaret Mullen-Fortino

doi:10.1145/2110363.2110438

The Medical Device Dongle: An Open-Source Standards-Based Platform for Interoperable Medical Device Connectivity

Philip Asare, Danyang Cong, Santosh G. Vattam, BaekGyu Kim, Andrew King, Oleg Sokolsky, Insup Lee, Shan Lin, Margaret Mullen-Fortino

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Abstract

Emerging medical applications require device coordination, increasing the need to connect devices in an interoperable manner. However, many of the existing health devices in use were not originally developed for network connectivity and those devices with networking capabilities either use proprietary protocols or implementations of standard protocols that are unavailable to the end user. The first set of devices are unsuitable for device coordination applications and the second set are unsuitable for research in medical device interoperability. We propose the Medical Device Dongle (MDD), a low-cost, open-source platform that addresses both issues.

Original language	American English
Journal	2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI '12)
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2110363.2110438
State	Published - Jan 28 2012
Externally published	Yes

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interoperability
medical device connectivity
plug and play

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