A review of ECG storage formats

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 681-697

  Bond, Raymond R ^a   Finlay, Dewar D ^a   Nugent, Chris D ^a   Moore, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ECG storage formats; Informatics; Interoperability; Standardization

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY ECG; BINARY ENCODINGS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC MODALITY; ECG DATA; GENERAL PURPOSE; HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; HUMAN-READABLE; IMPLEMENTATION METHODS; INFORMATICS; STORAGE FORMATS; SWOT ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUES USED; XML FILES;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HEALTH CARE; INTEROPERABILITY; MOBILE DEVICES; SEMANTICS; STANDARDIZATION; XML;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA MINING; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH LEVEL 7; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; MARKUP LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; WAVEFORM;

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 80052797545     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2011.06.008     Document Type: Review

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