Design and Implementation of Real-time Bio Signals Management System based on HL7 FHIR for Healthcare Services

Abstract

Recently, attention has been focused on services that combine medical technology with ICT technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, Internet of Things, and block chains. In addition, Research on healthcare services that can collect bio signal data through wearable sensors using IoT technology and monitor and manage health based on the collected data is increasing significantly. In particular, in a situation where the world is entering a rapidly aging society, health care services are being researched and developed in the direction of preventing diseases in advance and maintaining a healthy life. Healthcare services are bringing important changes in the pandemic era caused by covid-19. There is a need for a system capable of efficiently sharing and exchanging information of heterogeneous services to prevent emergencies and support optimal medical services. In this paper, we designed and developed a system that can collect, convert, and store bio-signals from various wearable sensors into international standard data to develop such healthcare services. HL7 (health level seven) FHIR (fast healthcare interoperability resources) applied mutandis in this paper is a standard protocol for data exchange between medical information systems of real-time collected bio signals. In this paper, we implement an interface module that converts bio signals such as EEG (electroencephalography), ECG (electrocardiogram), EMG (electromyography), and PPG (photoplethysmography) collected in real time from a wearable sensor into a message structure defined by HL7 FHIR. The interface module consists of a client part and a server part. The client part generates a variety of signal data from the healthcare service user and delivers the message to the server part. The server part is designed and implemented to parse the received message by segment field unit and transmit whether the message is abnormal or not to the client part. The system designed and implemented in this paper will be utilized as a technology that can mutually share and exchange medical information in a customized healthcare service that reflects the needs of various customers and a telemedicine system.