Home Care and Ambulatory Service for emergency events

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Home Care and Ambulatory Service for emergency
events
TeleIASIS Monitoring Platform
Tassos Tagaris, PhD ICCS, Greece
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Telemedicine Platform Architecture

• Portable Patient Unit
• Acquisition and transmission in real time or
  almost real time of
• Biosignals
• Audio
• Video
• Plethora of telecommunication networks
• Portable/fixed consultation unit.
• Ambulance or Homecare use

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Architecture Nodes P2P

• Transmission
• Monitoring
• Administrator

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Modules Functionality Supported

• Electronic Patient Record
• Session Management
• Save, Retrieve
• Replay
• Collaboration (P2P Enhanced)
• Chat
• Audio Video Conference
• Still Image Transmission
• Video Transmission
• Bidirectional audio communication

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Electronic Patient Record

• Part of Teleiasis telemedicine platform
• Stores demographic information about a patient
• Supports multiple sessions/episodes for each
  patient
• Stores biosignal data generated during a
  telemedicine session
• Supports two types of data
• Waveform data, such as ECG, SpO2, RESP etc.
• Measurements, such as Temp, NIBP, HR etc.

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EPR Structure
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EPR Session Structure
Waveform Message Structure
Fragment
Measurement Message Structure
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EPR Functionality
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Adding a new session
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Retrieving session data
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Architecture
SQL Server 2005
Teleiasis Peer-to-peer network
EPR API
Listener Node
Internet
Secure Web Service
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Technologies and Connectivity

• Windows Communication Framework (WCF)
• SQL Server 2005 database
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0
• Fixed narrowband networks (PSTN, ISDN)
• Fixed broadband networks (xDSL, LAN)
• Cellular networks (GSM, GPRS, UMTS)
• Other wireless networks
• Satellite networks

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Telemedicine Platform Functionality
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Collaboration Module
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Image Video Transmission
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Telemedicine Unit