Arquitetura de integração de dispositivos médicos, por mensagens HL7 em ambiente hospitalar

Abstract

The computerization has provided crucial advances in several areas, including healthcare, demonstrating that information plays a vital and essential role in the treatment of patients with critical comorbidities in the hospital setting. It is evident that the lack of better interpretation of such data compromises the entire care process, as symptoms could be interpreted more accurately and quickly. In this context, the study of data generated in this environment becomes necessary to ensure that these situations can be cataloged and addressed, supporting precise decisions through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools. Examples include action monitoring dashboards that allow hospital bed patients to be analyzed systematically through hardware devices equipped with embedded management software, enabling real-time transmission of information to a central dashboard, in addition to monitoring various indices such as blood glucose, blood levels, temperature, weight, blood pressure, and others. Such improvement and management actions will be based on a healthcareoriented standard widely used internationally, known as Health Level Seven (HL7), which has been adopted in Brazil as a reference by the Unified Health System (SUS), as well as by private initiatives. This study was implemented in a hospital environment using medical device simulators interconnected via a logical network, enabling efficient communication with a central data server. As a result, the information generated by the simulators was graphically displayed on a monitoring dashboard.