The Standardization Study of Data Communication and Storage for Rehabilitation Devices

Currently, lacking standards of data communication and storage has been becoming a huge problem in tertiary medical rehabilitation networks. Several rehabilitation management requirements need be met, such as integrating rehabilitation resources, sharing patient data, and augmenting efficiency of rehabilitation therapies. By summarizing existing standards within medical devices and data management, this paper proposed a novel standardized protocol for rehabilitation, which is composed of standards in data format, communication signaling and processing. To demonstrate it, an application in current tertiary medical rehabilitation networks was also proposed in this paper. As a result, the outcomes of this paper are expected to solve the "information isolated island" problem in current rehabilitation medical rehabilitation networks.