A Development of HL7 Middleware for Medical Device Communication

An efficient middleware has been developed to support medical device communication. HL7 is known to be best international standard to facilitate clinical device data transfer to information systems in hospital. In this study, we developed a middleware with capability of receiving data from mCare 300 Vital signs monitoring device and converting to HL7 data type format.

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