IVITooL. A scalable platform for medical data integration

In this paper, we present IVITooL (IntelliVue (R) Interface Tool), a valuable self-designed application software for the integration of medical information from different Intensive Care Units devices. Nowadays, most hospitals, including Intensive Care Areas are equipped with many cutting-edge devices for diagnosis, such as patient monitors. These devices provide huge volumes of data which should be analyzed later. The fact that each device uses a different standard for data transmission and storage greatly hinders the process of diagnosis. To solve this problem, the design of a software platform capable of interacting with a range of Philips (R) monitors is presented. In addition to be a high valuable interface, it also allows the inclusion of information from any other device, hence allowing the graphical representation and storage of different signals from different devices, resulting in an enormous benefit to early diagnosis of diseases.