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AORTICS

Advanced open resource telematics in critical care situations

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Project Nr: HC 1002 Group: III Project Duration: 24 months
Key words:
Category:Refined Intensive Care
Summary: Test and evaluate the norms carried out by CEN/TC251 WG 5 by making a prototype and implementing it. The prototype provides a communication means between medical devices in a Critical Care environment
Mission:AORTICS will work on an up-to-date telematics system to link medical devices monitoring hospital patients in intensive care and to display all information on a personal computer. One major problem is the multiplicity of information created at a patient's bedside and the need for its efficient integration to enable a better understanding of the patient's condition. The project will therefore test the effectiveness of prototype norms for an appropriate intercommunication system in a real-life hospital environment. It will validate a European operative standard to help companies integrate intercommunication facilities into the devices they manufacture.
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Coordinator(s)

  • Mr Pedro Basagoiti
    Software AG(Espana SA)
    Ronda de la Luna, 4
    E-28760 Tres Cantos(MADRID)
    Spain     		tel: 34 18 07 94 85
    fax: 34 18 07 94 93
    pbasagoiti@sag.es
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Participants:

Name of InstitutionCity+Postal CodeCountryRegion
Medelec GU22 9JU United Kingdom UK53
RGB Medical Devices 28035 Spain ES3
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover 30625 Germany DE92
Ecole Supèrieure de ingenieurs de Merseille 13451 France FR825
La Paz Hospital 28046 Spain ES3
Politechnical University of Madrid 28006 Spain ES3
Univ. Clinic of Anaetheslology - ULM 89073 Germany DE14

Project Objectives, Summary Description and Anticipated Results

An enormous amount of information, such as the medical instrumentation data and the medical personnel observations regarding the patient, is being generated at the patient's bedside in a Critical Care Unit. In practice, all this information is not always being captured, integrated and consequently processed in order to achieve a better understanding of the condition of the patient. A remaining major technical problem is the communication between devices.

Several proprietary solutions have been developed by local initiatives from big companies. These solutions have not gained general acceptability and have failed to draw upon the immense resources for instrumentation development which are available in the industry. Consequently, there is an urgent need to have a set of standards for Medical Device Intercommunication that will provide the ability to connect devices to each other freely and to exchange data between them. The application of such standards will rapidly create a completely new concept of the monitoring capabilities in the different departments within a health care institution.

The objective of AORTICS is to develop, implement, demonstrate and evaluate a practical telematics platform for a Medical Local Network to be used in the Critical Care Environment based on an open standard. The main contribution of our work is to create and validate an Open System by implementing the Normalization Work carried out by the CEN/TC251 WG 5. The prototype will serve to test the norms and as the first practical feedback to guarantee that the norms will work in real life situations. The results of this project are expected to be help create products that can be officially certified by the CEN/TC251 and add specific value to customers and companies.

Other Characteristics of the Project:

Users involved
  • La Paz Hospital (Madrid)
  • Universitary Clinic of ULM
    Technologies and/or approach used
    Technologies used will be low-level and high-level protocol communication software. The main innovation of the project comes from its open approach. The solution sought will be a non-proprietary one.
    Expected benefits for the citizen
  • accessibility to environmental data to any citizen (raw data and treated data)
  • possibility of environmental education (schools)
    Expected benefits for the users of the application
  • Integration of different patient information at the bedside of an CCU (Critical Care Unit)
  • Less costly medical assistance
  • Possibility of developing new and necessary environmental applications.
    Expected benefits for the European Industries
  • Introduction of a communication and data-interchange standard
  • Possibility of access to the market to SMEs and stop American companies
  • Improvement of companies competitiveness
    Contribution to EU-policies
  • More flexible and cheaper public services in relationship with Health Care
  • Introduction of an European standard
  • Fulfillment of CEN/TC251 WG 5 recommendations and guidelines

    • Validation Sites

    Hospital La Paz Madrid Com. de Madrid ES

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