IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization dedicated to
advancing technology for humanity, today announced two new standards and
one newly revised standard designed to support plug-and-play,
interoperable communications across “e-health” devices.
IEEE 11073™-10424 “Health informatics–Personal health
device communication – Part 10424: Device Specialization–Sleep
Apnea Breathing Therapy Equipment (SABTE)” and IEEE 11073-10425 “Health
informatics–Personal health device communication – Part 10425: Device
Specialization–Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM)” forge new dimensions
for the IEEE 11073 family of standards intended to help healthcare
product vendors and integrators worldwide create devices and systems for
disease management, health and fitness and independent living. Also, a
revision of IEEE 11073-20601 “Standard for Health Informatics Personal
Health Device Communication Part 20601: Application Profile Optimized
Exchange Protocol” was approved.
“E-health is positioning healthcare providers to better serve aging
populations, realize dramatic cost efficiencies and shift emphasis from
healing sick people to helping people stay well over the decades to
come,” said Konstantinos Karachalios, managing director, IEEE Standards
Association (IEEE-SA). “Global interoperability standards such as IEEE
11073-10424 and IEEE 11073-10425 are integral to the e-health vision, in
that they help disparate, multi-vendor devices, systems and applications
for e-health to speak the same language and communicate with one
another, toward the goal of enabling revolutionary services that help
more people live longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives.”
There is gathering consensus on the necessity of standards-based
interoperability in the burgeoning e-health space. In a March 2013
report to the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce
Subcommittee on Health, the West Health Institute reported that
standards-based interoperability among medical devices “could be a
source of more than $30 billion a year in savings and improve patient
care and safety.”1 And, in its guidance to the healthcare
industry, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now recognizes
interoperability-related standards, including more than a dozen IEEE
11073 standards.
IEEE 11073-10424 defines profiles for interoperable communications for
SABTE agents, devices that are designed to alleviate symptoms of a
sleep-apnoea sufferer in a home-health environment without direct
professional supervision by delivering a therapeutic breathing pressure
to the patient. IEEE 11073-10424 is available for purchase at the IEEE
Standards Store.
IEEE 11073-10425 is designed to support plug-and-play communications
among personal telehealth glucose meter devices, which regularly measure
a person’s glucose level through a sensor attached to the individual,
and compute engines such as health appliances, set-top boxes, cell
phones and personal computers. IEEE 11073-10425 is available for
purchase at the IEEE
Standards Store.
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