Archetypes and Standards forMedical Information Interchange

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 ofstandards. Many of them contradict each other. The standardization in the area of data transfer between Hospital Information Systems and mobile devices is very complicatedtask. Standards selection and implementation is a hard process. This paper pretends to present some of the available standardsconcerning medical data exchange and how these standards can be followed and implemented in mobile solutions.

Keywords:

Electronic Health Record , mobile device , telemedicine , health informatics standards , conformance