Archetypes and Standards for Medical Information Interchange

Abstract

The extensive usage of mobile devices for vital signs collection and the use of ordinary communication networks for data transportation enabled many new opportunities but opened many new problems. In the area of medical information collection, transportation, presentation, and analysis there are a lot of standards. Many of them contradict each other. The standardization in the area of data transfer between Hospital Information Systems and mobile devices is very complicated task. Standards selection and implementation is a hard process. This paper pretends to present some of the available standards concerning medical data exchange and how these standards can be followed and implemented in mobile solutions.