The medical device dongle: an open-source standards-based platform for interoperable medical device connectivity

Authors:
Philip Asare;Danyang Cong;Santosh G. Vattam;BaekGyu Kim;Andrew King;Oleg Sokolsky;Insup Lee;Shan Lin;Margaret Mullen-Fortino
Affiliations:
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA;University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA;University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA;University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA;University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA;University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA;University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA;Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA;University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Emerging medical applications require device coordination, increasing the need to connect devices in an interoperable manner. However, many of the existing health devices in use were not originally developed for network connectivity and those devices with networking capabilities either use proprietary protocols or implementations of standard protocols that are unavailable to the end user. The first set of devices are unsuitable for device coordination applications and the second set are unsuitable for research in medical device interoperability. We propose the Medical Device Dongle (MDD), a low-cost, open-source platform that addresses both issues.