Improving Medical Technology Communications Through Consensus Building: IEEE 11073TM Family of Standards

1. Improving Medical Technology Communications
Through Consensus Building:
IEEE 11073TM Family of Standards
January 2013

2. Personal Connected Health
The Healthcare industry is developing devices to
help monitor and maintain care remotely in
patients – personal health devices.
This helps to improve the quality of life and
independence of patients, while giving healthcare
professionals access to the data they need to
make decisions.
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3. Types of Personal Health Devices
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Pill dispenser
Motion sensor
Bed/chair sensor
Blood Pressure
Monitor
Glucose
Pulse Oxygen
Monitor (SpO2)
Weight Scale
Environmental Physiological

4. Personal Health Devices
Profiles of patients, conditions, and devices used to monitor treatment
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Age Event REACTION Component Sensor
Diabetes risk
45 Type II Diabetes Lifestyle advice
Intelligent personalised feedback
Blood glucose (spot)
55 Hypertension Risk score for complication
Data mining
Blood pressure monitor
65 Angina ECG
67 Congestive Heart
Failure
Weight, Blood pressure
monitor
70 Dementia Medication monitor
Environmental sensor
72 Insulin dependent Continuous BG/
Insulin pump
74 Valve disease INR (International
Normalized Ratio)
75 Peripheral vascular
(leg ulcer)
76 Incontinence Incontinence monitor
78 Fall Fall alert
82 Death

5. Personal Connected Health
Increasing evidence supports the value of remote
home monitoring in chronic disease:
 35-56% reduction in mortality;
 47% reduction in risk of hospitalization;
 6 days reduction in length of hospital admission and
 65% reduction in office visits;
 40-64% reduction in physician time for checks and
 63% reduction in transport costs
(Cleland et al 2005; Lee R, Goldberg et al, 2003; Scalvini S et al., 2001; Elsner et al, 2006; Van
Ginneken et al 2006)
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6. Why standards are important
 Provides a roadmap for products and services
– Each interface defines a boundary of responsibility for a
product or service
– Each exposed interface places interoperability
requirements on the product
– Constrains/enables areas for innovation

7. Why interoperability is important
 Healthcare is Complex: diverse providers, consumers,
settings & needs
 mHealth showing positive results…but success depends on
patient/provider willingness to learn & use technologies
 Early evidence shows interoperability is more cost
effective than ad hoc solutions
 Consumer Technology Market History: successful
technologies are flexible and easy to use
…Interoperability promotes ease for patients, providers and
administrators

8. Benefits of Device Standardization
 Extensible range of devices – grows with needs of user
 Single system for telehealth and telecare
 Low cost – devices compatible and re-usable
 Modularise the system (common interfaces)
– Niche sensors
– Specialist providers of system components
– Extend range of devices available
– Improved system functionality

9. Benefits of Device Standardization
 Home integration (smart meter, cable TV)
– Ubiquitous
– Utilities can provide the infrastructure
– Utilities can install the equipment
– Commodity item
– Simpler installation
 Increased scale
 Can be used on patients with more prevalent diseases
 System cost spread over more users

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IEEE 11073-00103™ Overview
Serial IrDA Bluetooth USB ZigBee
Layers1-4Layers5-7
OSI
IEEE Personal Health Device Standards
Communication Protocols
NFC
IEEE 11073-20601™ Optimized Exchange Protocol
IEEE
11073
-10404™
Pulse
Oximeter
IEEE
11073
-10407™
Blood
Pressure
IEEE
11073
-10408™
Thermo-
meter
IEEE
11073
-10415™
Weighing
Scale
IEEE
11073
-10417™
Glucose
IEEE
11073
-10441™
Cardio
IEEE
11073
-10442™
Strength
IEEE
11073
-10471™
Activity
Data
Phase II
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Device Specializations

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12. Interested in learning more?
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Wednesday 9am – 1pm
Thursday 9am – 1pm
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