The OpenECG certification service
Philip J. Lees
CMI-HTA, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Development - Hellas, Heraklion, Greece
The European standard for ECG communication and storage is the SCP-ECG. This ECG Standard is the result of a EU supported project that European, American and Japanese manufacturers and users have jointly worked and agreed on (1989-1990) till its publication in 1993 as a European ENV. This document was reviewed by an AAMI committee (with participants from Europe) and the revised version was then balloted positively and became in 2000 the AAMI standard EC71.
This standard offers many degrees of freedom also in the storage of the ECG waveforms, making sometimes not too easy its correct implementation. The OpenECG project wants to offer a support to manufacturers and integrators that use this standard, providing a tool able to check the correct implementation of the standard itself. The OpenECG certification service at record level is automatically provided through the portal to the OpenECG members and gives an accurate analysis of record content and format, signalling errors or warnings in the proper implementation of the standard inside the submitted record.
Certification from the OpenECG consortium should not be considered an official certification as provided by approved international/national Notified Bodies. The OpenECG consortium does not constitute a notified body. The certification service offered by the OpenECG consortium is a Conformance Validation, qualified by professionals and experts of an accepted IST project of the European Commission.
This demonstration will show the OpenECG certification service and its results on a set of different ECG of various manufacturers.
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