Wax David B, Hill Bryan, Levin Matthew A
Department of Anesthesiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
J Med Syst. 2017 Jun;41(6):101. doi: 10.1007/s10916-017-0751-2. Epub 2017 May 20.
Medical hardware and software device interoperability standards are not uniform. The result of this lack of standardization is that information available on clinical devices may not be readily or freely available for import into other systems for research, decision support, or other purposes. We developed a novel system to import discrete data from an anesthesia machine ventilator by capturing images of the graphical display screen and using image processing to extract the data with off-the-shelf hardware and open-source software. We were able to successfully capture and verify live ventilator data from anesthesia machines in multiple operating rooms and store the discrete data in a relational database at a substantially lower cost than vendor-sourced solutions.
医疗硬件和软件设备的互操作性标准并不统一。这种缺乏标准化的结果是，临床设备上可用的信息可能无法方便地或免费地导入到其他系统中用于研究、决策支持或其他目的。我们开发了一种新颖的系统，通过捕捉图形显示屏的图像并使用图像处理技术，利用现成的硬件和开源软件从麻醉机呼吸机中导入离散数据。我们能够成功地从多个手术室的麻醉机中捕捉并验证实时呼吸机数据，并将离散数据存储在关系数据库中，成本比从供应商处采购的解决方案低得多。
