Construction of information communication system for blood purification device

Abstract

This study was aimed to enable remote monitoring and real-time evaluation of pressure changes during blood purification by constructing a network system that can continuously extract various data from the blood purification devices. We developed an application that obtains operation history by communicating with each blood purification device. An authorized computer was allowed to extract data and transmit it to Network Attached Storage, Network HDD, and NAS. With this system, it was possible to calculate the rate of change of various circuit pressures and create a trend graph. By using NAS on the hospital network, the obtained information and the analyzed data were available in various places of the hospital. This new system can accumulate and aggregate the data from the blood purification devices in real time enabled remote monitoring in various places and is expected to contribute to improving the quality of blood purification device management.