Building Point of Care Health Technologies on the IEEE 11073 Health Device Standards

We describe a complete point of care health system implemented using the IEEE 11073 health device standards and ZigBee health care profile and following the Continua Alliance guidelines. We exploit the interoperability and wide range of specializations to implement four physiological devices and three environmental sensors. Within our projects, we have demonstrated the versatility of the Continua architecture by implementing the AHD within a smart meter, a wall socket plugin gateway and PC based application. We are evaluating clinical impact of the integrated sensor platform to manage frail elderly and diabetes patients. Experience shows that the standards provide the advantage of a rapid development environment, and will offer an increasingly wide range of commercial devices as they are adopted.