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IEEE 11073™ Standards Family Grows To Expand Multi-vendor Interoperability Critically Needed For 'E-Health' ServicesIEEE (News - Alert), the world's largest professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today announced two new standards and one newly revised standard designed to support plug-and-play, interoperable communications across "e-health" devices. IEEE 11073™-10424 "Health informatics--Personal health device communication - Part 10424: Device Specialization--Sleep Apnea Breathing Therapy Equipment (SABTE)" and IEEE 11073-10425 "Health informatics--Personal health device communication - Part 10425: Device Specialization--Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM)" forge new dimensions for the IEEE 11073 family of standards intended to help healthcare product vendors and integrators worldwide create devices and systems for disease management, health and fitness and independent living. Also, a revision of IEEE 11073-20601 "Standard for Health Informatics (News - Alert) Personal Health Device Communication Part 20601: Application Profile Optimized Exchange Protocol" was approved. "E-health is positioning healthcare providers to better serve aging populations, realize dramatic cost efficiencies and shift emphasis from healing sick people to helping people stay well over the decades to come," said Konstantinos Karachalios, managing director, IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA). "Global interoperability standards such as IEEE 11073-10424 and IEEE 11073-10425 are integral to the e-health vision, in that they help disparate, multi-vendor devices, systems and applications for e-health to speak the same language and communicate with one another, toward the goal of enabling revolutionary services that help more people live longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives." There is gathering consensus on the necessity of standards-based interoperability in the burgeoning e-health space. In a March 2013 report to the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, the West Health Institute reported that standards-based interoperability among medical devices "could be a source of more than $30 billion a year in savings and improve patient care and safety."1 And, in its guidance to the healthcare industry, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now recognizes interoperability-related standards, including more than a dozen IEEE 11073 standards. IEEE 11073-10424 defines profiles for interoperable communications for SABTE agents, devices that are designed to alleviate symptoms of a sleep-apnoea sufferer in a home-health environment without direct professional supervision by delivering a therapeutic breathing pressure to the patient. IEEE 11073-10424 is available for purchase at the IEEE Standards Store. IEEE 11073-10425 is designed to support plug-and-play communications among personal telehealth glucose meter devices, which regularly measure a person's glucose level through a sensor attached to the individual, and compute engines such as health appliances, set-top boxes, cell phones and personal computers. IEEE 11073-10425 is available for purchase at the IEEE Standards Store. The newly revised IEEE 11073-20601 proposes a common framework for making personal health data available in transport-independent syntax for seamless e-health communications. IEEE 11073-20601 is available for purchase at the IEEE Standards Store. For more information on the IEEE 11073 Personal Health Device Working Group, please visit http://standards.ieee.org/develop/wg/PHD.html. To learn more about IEEE-SA, visit us on Facebook (News - Alert) at http://www.facebook.com/ieeesa, follow us on Twitter (News - Alert) at http://www.twitter.com/ieeesa, connect with us on LinkedIn (News - Alert) at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1791118 or on the Standards Insight Blog at http://www.standardsinsight.com. About the IEEE Standards Association The IEEE Standards Association, a globally recognized standards-setting body within IEEE, develops consensus standards through an open process that engages industry and brings together a broad stakeholder community. IEEE standards set specifications and best practices based on current scientific and technological knowledge. The IEEE-SA has a portfolio of over 900 active standards and more than 500 standards under development. For more information visit http://standards.ieee.org/. About IEEE IEEE, a large, global technical professional organization, is dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. Through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities, IEEE is the trusted voice on a wide variety of areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics. Learn more at http://www.ieee.org. |
