A Service-Based Perspective on Neonatal Critical Care

作者：Gronvall Erik^*; Pollini Alessandro; Rullo Alessia

来源：Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2010, 1(4): 555-578.

DOI：10.1260/2040-2295.1.4.555

• neonatal Intensive care
• service architecture
• SOA
• critical care
• assemblies
• prototypes
• evaluation

This paper describes a service-based approach to the development of monitoring technologies for neonatal intensive care. We illustrate the design of an adaptable monitoring system targeting the specific requirements of a critical setting such as the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The system is based on two main components: (a) a browser that supports the creation of loosely-coupled services to allow the neonatal team to adapt the equipment to the requirements of individual newborns, and (b) a set of networked technologies for unobtrusive monitoring of vital parameters. The system is implemented using a middleware architecture that enables the neonatal team to create new correlations among existing and newly introduced monitoring devices. The architecture supports the dynamic assembly of services provided by a distributed computational system. In this way, it is possible to compare the vital parameters detected by different sources in order to obtain a more accurate monitoring of the newborns.

• 出版日期2010-12