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Amended SCP-ECG as an international standard EN ISO 11073? Your opinion counts! Tell us what you think in http://www.openecg.net/quest-iso.htm
The presentation made by the OpenECG consortium at the 5th European Symposium on BioMedical Engineering, Patras, Greece, 7-9 July 2006 is now available in the Presentations section of the portal.
A new success story is now available under the "Success Stories" section of the OpenECG portal. It is related to the "Erasmus MC Solution to ECG Transmission" and has been kindly provided by Marcel de Wijs (Erasmus MC).
A Frequently Asked Questions section is now available in the OpenECG portal.
A further on improved version of the certification service is now available in the Members' Area. The content checker has been updated to ver. 1.13C, while the format checker has been updated to ver. 2.10. These new versions of the format and content checkers solve some minor problems of the previous version.
The new version of the certification service is now available in the Members' Area. The content checker has been updated to ver. 1.13b, while the format checker has been updated to ver. 2.00. The new version of the format checker checks all the sections (0..11) defined by the SCP-ECG standard and also operates some inter-section checks. To access the certification service, select the Membership section, click on Members' Area and digit your OpenECG member account (username and password). Once accessed the OpenECG members' area, you need to click on "OpenECG Certification" and then on "ECG Record Testing (Web Interface)".
The presentation made by the OpenECG consortium at the pHealth 2006 International Workshop, Luzern, Switzerland on 30 January - 1 February 2006 is now available in the Presentations section of the portal.
The presentations made by the OpenECG consortium at Computers in Cardiology 2004, Chicago, IL, USA on 19-22 September 2004 and Computers in Cardiology 2005, Lyon, France on 25-28 September 2005 are now available in the Presentations section of the portal.
In the OpenECG SW Repository of the OpenECG members' area (once accessed the members' area, you need to click on "Software Repository"), the new version (2.2) of the Visual SCP Reader Application (SCP-AV), developed by E. Cervesato and G. De Odorico, is now available. This version, written in standard C/C++ cross-platform, can read SCP 2.0 files as well as some prestandard real implementations and visually display their content both alphanumeric and signal parts. The present application can be also built, using lightly different makefiles included in the sources, in order to insert the conformance test web service in the program functionalities (version 2.2 CONFORMANCE). The build and execution under different platforms have been tested (makefiles are available): WIN32 (Borland and Visual C/C++ 6.0), Unix like OS (e.g. FreeBSD) and Cygwin for Windows.
The ECG Record Testing (in SCP-ECG format), already released as a Web Interface, has been now released as a Web Service for the OpenECG members. Information on how to use this service and code samples are available in the OpenECG members' area. Once accessed the members' area, you need to click on "OpenECG Certification" and then on "ECG Record Testing (Web Service)". Alternatively you can directly access the page from here.
The "cluster" group of projects under the thematic area "Personal Health Management System and Services based on Biosensors" of which OpenECG is part is now listed with the available links.
The last public deliverable Final Report: Results and Achievements is now available in the "Public Deliverables" section.
Updated information on the FDA/HL7 Annotated ECG format is now available in the OpenECG members' area. Once accessed the members' area, you need to click on "Other Relevant ECG Formats" and then on "FDA/HL7 Annotated ECG".
A new-designed OpenECG site has been opened.
A new version of the SCP-ECG to DICOM Waveform Supplement 30 converter is now available in the OpenECG members' area. Once accessed the members' area, you need to click on "Tools and Converters" and then on "SCP-ECG to DICOM Converter". The OpenECG consortium would like to thank Victor Derks (GE Healthcare) for his help in the debugging.
A questionnaire for OpenECG members is now available in the OpenECG members' area. You can also directly access it.
The way of working of the OpenECG mailing list has been modified. A more strict moderation has been applied.
The proceedings of the 2^nd OpenECG Workshop are now available in the portal. You can download the whole document in the Public Deliverables section.
A Summary Report of the 2^nd OpenECG Workshop is now available in the 2^nd OpenECG Workshop section.
The IFC-CNR database containing the presumed SCP-ECG files submitted by OpenECG members to the SCP parser via email service is now available in the Members' Area. Please, access the Membership section, click on Members' Area and digit your OpenECG member account (username and password). Once accessed the OpenECG members' area, you need to click on "SCP-ECG Databases" and then on "SCP-ECG Database of IFC-CNR".
Another converter (Philips' XML ECG to SVG) has been added to the OpenECG members' area. This converter allows the conversion from Philips XML ECG format (with compressed and base 64 encoded) to the XML Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format, which can be viewed as a graphic image using a browser such as Internet Explorer, with an SVG plugin (e.g., SVGView from Adobe). Once in the OpenECG members' area click on "Other Relevant ECG Formats" and then on "Philips XML ECG".
The public deliverables of the OpenECG project are now available in the new Public Deliverables section of the portal.
The presentation made by the OpenECG consortium at the Hungarian Cardiology Congress 2004, Balatonfured, Hungary on 12-15 May 2004 is now available in the Presentations section of the portal.
Philips XML ECGs created by the cardiograph (e.g., PageWriterTouch or PageWriterTrim), IntelliVue Bedside Monitor/Information Center with 12-Lead capability, or XML ECGs exported from the TracemasterVue ECG Management System are XML ECG files with compressed and base64 encoded ECG waveforms. The OpenECG members' area has been now enriched with two converters: Philips' XML ECG decompressor and Philips' XML ECG to FDA. The former allows the conversion from Philips XML ECG format (with compressed and base 64 encoded) to Philips XML ECG file with uncompressed, plain text, waveform sample values. The latter allows the conversion from Philips XML ECG format (with compressed and base 64 encoded) to the HL7 version 3 AnnotatedECG format, which has been adopted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for digital submission of ECGs as part of a drug clinical trial submission. Once in the OpenECG members' area click on "Other Relevant ECG Formats" and then on "Philips XML ECG".
The SW Repository has been now enriched with the most significant contributions received for the OpenECG Programming Contest. Furthermore, the contribution provided by Mauro Micalizzi & Fabrizio Conforti (IFC-CNR) has been significantly updated. To enter the SW Repository, please access the OpenECG members' area (Membership section and click on "Members' area"), then select the "Software Repository" section.
The preliminary programme of the 2^nd OpenECG workshop is now available on the portal.
The winners of the OpenECG Programming Contest have now been selected. Their final classification is now available on the portal. Prizes will be awarded at the 2^nd OpenECG Workshop.
An updated version of the Medical waveform description Format Encoding Rules (MFER), a Japanese format for the encoding of medical waveforms such as ECG, EEG, respiration curve and various data, is now available in the Members' Area with documentation, a waveform viewer (in English), ECG and waveform samples, and relevant links. To acces it, you need to enter the Members' Area selecting Membership section, clicking on Members' Area and digiting your OpenECG member account (username and password). Once inside the Members' Area, click on "Other Relevant ECG Formats" and then on "MFER and ECG Samples".
The presentations made by FORTH at CEN TC251 JWG Meeting, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, on 1-3 Febrauary 2004 are now available in the Presentations section of the portal.
The FDA/HL7 Annotated ECG format is now available in the Members' Area with documentation, ECG samples, and relevant links to suitable ECG viewers and other useful information. To acces it, you need to enter the Members' Area selecting Membership section, clicking on Members' Area and digiting your OpenECG member account (username and password). Once inside the Members' Area, click on "Other Relevant ECG Formats" and then on "FDA/HL7 Annotated ECG".
The Medical waveform description Format Encoding Rules (MFER), a Japanese format for the encoding of medical waveforms such as ECG, EEG, respiration curve and various data, is now available in the Members' Area with documentation, ECG and waveform samples, and relevant links. To acces it, you need to enter the Members' Area selecting Membership section, clicking on Members' Area and digiting your OpenECG member account (username and password). Once inside the Members' Area, click on "Other Relevant ECG Formats" and then on "MFER and ECG Samples".
The OpenECG SW Repository is now available to the OpenECG members. To acces it, you need to enter the Members' Area selecting Membership section, clicking on Members' Area and digiting your OpenECG member account (username and password). Once inside the Members' Area, just click on "Software Repository".
The finalists of the OpenECG Programming Contest have now been selected. The winners and their final classification will be published on the portal in March 2004. Prizes will be awarded at the 2^nd OpenECG Workshop.
The deadlines for the 2^nd Workshop Abstracts and the Programming Contest expired on January 25, 2004, 24:00 GMT.
The 2^nd OpenECG Workshop Registration Info is available on this portal.
The abstract submission deadline for the 2^nd OpenECG Workshop is extended to January 25, 2004, 24:00 GMT.
Links to useful tools available on the Web are now included in the members' area, that you can access selecting Membership section, clicking on Members' Area and digiting your OpenECG member account (username and password). Once inside the members' area, click on "Tools and Converters" and then on "Link to Useful Tools Available on the Web".
The 2^nd OpenECG Workshop Hotel Accomodation Info and Venue are available on this portal.
The entry submission deadline for the Programming Contest is extended to January 25, 2004, 24:00 GMT.
The instructions for authors for abstract and paper preparation and for abstract and paper submission are now available on the portal.
The open Call for Papers for the 2^nd OpenECG Workshop is now available on this portal.
The Events section has been updated. Among the new events included, note the 2^nd OpenECG Workshop that will be held in Berlin, Germany, 1-3 April 2004 and the next CEN TC251 JWG that will be held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece on 1-3 February 2004.
Some OpenECG presentations from the 30th Computers in Cardiology Meeting, September 22-24, 2003 (Thessaloniki, Greece) are now available.
Philips' XML Schema and ECG Samples have been added to the Members' Area. Please, access the Membership section, click on Members' Area and digit your OpenECG member account (username and password). Once accessed the Members' Area, you need to click on "Other Relevant ECG Formats" and then on "Philips' XML Schema and ECG Samples".
A third tutorial "A Brief History of Electrocardiography" is now available to the public. Visit the tutorial section to have a complete view of all the available tutorials.
The proceedings of the OpenECG Information Day at Computers in Cardiology 2003 are now available.
A Members' Area with several members' services (OpenECG Certification Service, SCP-ECG Databases and Tools and Converters) is now available to the OpenECG members. You need to access the Membership section, click on Members' Area and digit your OpenECG member account (username and password). Now, in this area, you can also access your member data and modify them including your username and password.
A new success story from FUNEN is now available.
The development of the OpenECG Certification Service (its publication in the portal is imminent) has allowed a further improvement in the quality of the test set for the programming contest with the fixing of a couple of minor problems. This new test set (OpenECG certified) for the Programming Contest is now available in the Useful Information section in addition to the old one. It is still composed by the same 12 ECGs in 3 different formats: raw data, SCP with redundancy reduction and SCP with high compression.
An OpenECG Information Day on OpenECG Certification for Interoperability will be held during the 30th Annual Conference on Computers in Cardiology in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 21, 2003.
A second tutorial "How to implement SCP, Part II" is now available to the public.
OpenECG presentations from the IEEE 1073 Working Group Meeting, January 13-17, 2003 (San Antonio, Texas) and from the International Congress on Electrocardiology, June 11-14, 2003 (Helsinki, Finland).
A new test set for the Programming Contest is now available in the Useful Information section. This new test set replaces the old one and is composed of 12 ECGs in 3 different formats: raw data, SCP with redundancy reduction and SCP with high compression. The accuracies of all files in this test set have been carefully tested and are within the limits set by the standard.
A section with information about the OpenECG Industry Advisory Board is now included.
A tutorial section has been added to the portal. A first tutorial on "How to implement SCP, Part I" is now available to the public.
The OpenECG mailing list is now open to members. To become a member of the OpenECG consortium, complete the application form.
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The OpenECG Programming Contest is now open.
The Proceedings of the 1^st OpenECG Workshop are now available.

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	Last update: 8 February 2007 Amended SCP-ECG as an international standard EN ISO 11073? Your opinion counts! Tell us what you think in http://www.openecg.net/quest-iso.htm The presentation made by the OpenECG consortium at the 5th European Symposium on BioMedical Engineering, Patras, Greece, 7-9 July 2006 is now available in the Presentations section of the portal. A new success story is now available under the "Success Stories" section of the OpenECG portal. It is related to the "Erasmus MC Solution to ECG Transmission" and has been kindly provided by Marcel de Wijs (Erasmus MC). A Frequently Asked Questions section is now available in the OpenECG portal. A further on improved version of the certification service is now available in the Members' Area. The content checker has been updated to ver. 1.13C, while the format checker has been updated to ver. 2.10. These new versions of the format and content checkers solve some minor problems of the previous version. The new version of the certification service is now available in the Members' Area. The content checker has been updated to ver. 1.13b, while the format checker has been updated to ver. 2.00. The new version of the format checker checks all the sections (0..11) defined by the SCP-ECG standard and also operates some inter-section checks. To access the certification service, select the Membership section, click on Members' Area and digit your OpenECG member account (username and password). Once accessed the OpenECG members' area, you need to click on "OpenECG Certification" and then on "ECG Record Testing (Web Interface)". The presentation made by the OpenECG consortium at the pHealth 2006 International Workshop, Luzern, Switzerland on 30 January - 1 February 2006 is now available in the Presentations section of the portal. The presentations made by the OpenECG consortium at Computers in Cardiology 2004, Chicago, IL, USA on 19-22 September 2004 and Computers in Cardiology 2005, Lyon, France on 25-28 September 2005 are now available in the Presentations section of the portal. In the OpenECG SW Repository of the OpenECG members' area (once accessed the members' area, you need to click on "Software Repository"), the new version (2.2) of the Visual SCP Reader Application (SCP-AV), developed by E. Cervesato and G. De Odorico, is now available. This version, written in standard C/C++ cross-platform, can read SCP 2.0 files as well as some prestandard real implementations and visually display their content both alphanumeric and signal parts. The present application can be also built, using lightly different makefiles included in the sources, in order to insert the conformance test web service in the program functionalities (version 2.2 CONFORMANCE). The build and execution under different platforms have been tested (makefiles are available): WIN32 (Borland and Visual C/C++ 6.0), Unix like OS (e.g. FreeBSD) and Cygwin for Windows. The ECG Record Testing (in SCP-ECG format), already released as a Web Interface, has been now released as a Web Service for the OpenECG members. Information on how to use this service and code samples are available in the OpenECG members' area. Once accessed the members' area, you need to click on "OpenECG Certification" and then on "ECG Record Testing (Web Service)". Alternatively you can directly access the page from here. The "cluster" group of projects under the thematic area "Personal Health Management System and Services based on Biosensors" of which OpenECG is part is now listed with the available links. The last public deliverable Final Report: Results and Achievements is now available in the "Public Deliverables" section. Updated information on the FDA/HL7 Annotated ECG format is now available in the OpenECG members' area. Once accessed the members' area, you need to click on "Other Relevant ECG Formats" and then on "FDA/HL7 Annotated ECG". A new-designed OpenECG site has been opened. A new version of the SCP-ECG to DICOM Waveform Supplement 30 converter is now available in the OpenECG members' area. Once accessed the members' area, you need to click on "Tools and Converters" and then on "SCP-ECG to DICOM Converter". The OpenECG consortium would like to thank Victor Derks (GE Healthcare) for his help in the debugging. A questionnaire for OpenECG members is now available in the OpenECG members' area. You can also directly access it. The way of working of the OpenECG mailing list has been modified. A more strict moderation has been applied. The proceedings of the 2^nd OpenECG Workshop are now available in the portal. You can download the whole document in the Public Deliverables section. A Summary Report of the 2^nd OpenECG Workshop is now available in the 2^nd OpenECG Workshop section. The IFC-CNR database containing the presumed SCP-ECG files submitted by OpenECG members to the SCP parser via email service is now available in the Members' Area. Please, access the Membership section, click on Members' Area and digit your OpenECG member account (username and password). Once accessed the OpenECG members' area, you need to click on "SCP-ECG Databases" and then on "SCP-ECG Database of IFC-CNR". Another converter (Philips' XML ECG to SVG) has been added to the OpenECG members' area. This converter allows the conversion from Philips XML ECG format (with compressed and base 64 encoded) to the XML Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format, which can be viewed as a graphic image using a browser such as Internet Explorer, with an SVG plugin (e.g., SVGView from Adobe). Once in the OpenECG members' area click on "Other Relevant ECG Formats" and then on "Philips XML ECG". The public deliverables of the OpenECG project are now available in the new Public Deliverables section of the portal. The presentation made by the OpenECG consortium at the Hungarian Cardiology Congress 2004, Balatonfured, Hungary on 12-15 May 2004 is now available in the Presentations section of the portal. Philips XML ECGs created by the cardiograph (e.g., PageWriterTouch or PageWriterTrim), IntelliVue Bedside Monitor/Information Center with 12-Lead capability, or XML ECGs exported from the TracemasterVue ECG Management System are XML ECG files with compressed and base64 encoded ECG waveforms. The OpenECG members' area has been now enriched with two converters: Philips' XML ECG decompressor and Philips' XML ECG to FDA. The former allows the conversion from Philips XML ECG format (with compressed and base 64 encoded) to Philips XML ECG file with uncompressed, plain text, waveform sample values. The latter allows the conversion from Philips XML ECG format (with compressed and base 64 encoded) to the HL7 version 3 AnnotatedECG format, which has been adopted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for digital submission of ECGs as part of a drug clinical trial submission. Once in the OpenECG members' area click on "Other Relevant ECG Formats" and then on "Philips XML ECG". The SW Repository has been now enriched with the most significant contributions received for the OpenECG Programming Contest. Furthermore, the contribution provided by Mauro Micalizzi & Fabrizio Conforti (IFC-CNR) has been significantly updated. To enter the SW Repository, please access the OpenECG members' area (Membership section and click on "Members' area"), then select the "Software Repository" section. The preliminary programme of the 2^nd OpenECG workshop is now available on the portal. The winners of the OpenECG Programming Contest have now been selected. Their final classification is now available on the portal. Prizes will be awarded at the 2^nd OpenECG Workshop. An updated version of the Medical waveform description Format Encoding Rules (MFER), a Japanese format for the encoding of medical waveforms such as ECG, EEG, respiration curve and various data, is now available in the Members' Area with documentation, a waveform viewer (in English), ECG and waveform samples, and relevant links. To acces it, you need to enter the Members' Area selecting Membership section, clicking on Members' Area and digiting your OpenECG member account (username and password). Once inside the Members' Area, click on "Other Relevant ECG Formats" and then on "MFER and ECG Samples". The presentations made by FORTH at CEN TC251 JWG Meeting, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, on 1-3 Febrauary 2004 are now available in the Presentations section of the portal. The FDA/HL7 Annotated ECG format is now available in the Members' Area with documentation, ECG samples, and relevant links to suitable ECG viewers and other useful information. To acces it, you need to enter the Members' Area selecting Membership section, clicking on Members' Area and digiting your OpenECG member account (username and password). Once inside the Members' Area, click on "Other Relevant ECG Formats" and then on "FDA/HL7 Annotated ECG". The Medical waveform description Format Encoding Rules (MFER), a Japanese format for the encoding of medical waveforms such as ECG, EEG, respiration curve and various data, is now available in the Members' Area with documentation, ECG and waveform samples, and relevant links. To acces it, you need to enter the Members' Area selecting Membership section, clicking on Members' Area and digiting your OpenECG member account (username and password). Once inside the Members' Area, click on "Other Relevant ECG Formats" and then on "MFER and ECG Samples". The OpenECG SW Repository is now available to the OpenECG members. To acces it, you need to enter the Members' Area selecting Membership section, clicking on Members' Area and digiting your OpenECG member account (username and password). Once inside the Members' Area, just click on "Software Repository". The finalists of the OpenECG Programming Contest have now been selected. The winners and their final classification will be published on the portal in March 2004. Prizes will be awarded at the 2^nd OpenECG Workshop. The deadlines for the 2^nd Workshop Abstracts and the Programming Contest expired on January 25, 2004, 24:00 GMT. The 2^nd OpenECG Workshop Registration Info is available on this portal. The abstract submission deadline for the 2^nd OpenECG Workshop is extended to January 25, 2004, 24:00 GMT. Links to useful tools available on the Web are now included in the members' area, that you can access selecting Membership section, clicking on Members' Area and digiting your OpenECG member account (username and password). Once inside the members' area, click on "Tools and Converters" and then on "Link to Useful Tools Available on the Web". The 2^nd OpenECG Workshop Hotel Accomodation Info and Venue are available on this portal. The entry submission deadline for the Programming Contest is extended to January 25, 2004, 24:00 GMT. The instructions for authors for abstract and paper preparation and for abstract and paper submission are now available on the portal. The open Call for Papers for the 2^nd OpenECG Workshop is now available on this portal. The Events section has been updated. Among the new events included, note the 2^nd OpenECG Workshop that will be held in Berlin, Germany, 1-3 April 2004 and the next CEN TC251 JWG that will be held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece on 1-3 February 2004. Some OpenECG presentations from the 30th Computers in Cardiology Meeting, September 22-24, 2003 (Thessaloniki, Greece) are now available. Philips' XML Schema and ECG Samples have been added to the Members' Area. Please, access the Membership section, click on Members' Area and digit your OpenECG member account (username and password). Once accessed the Members' Area, you need to click on "Other Relevant ECG Formats" and then on "Philips' XML Schema and ECG Samples". A third tutorial "A Brief History of Electrocardiography" is now available to the public. Visit the tutorial section to have a complete view of all the available tutorials. The proceedings of the OpenECG Information Day at Computers in Cardiology 2003 are now available. A Members' Area with several members' services (OpenECG Certification Service, SCP-ECG Databases and Tools and Converters) is now available to the OpenECG members. You need to access the Membership section, click on Members' Area and digit your OpenECG member account (username and password). Now, in this area, you can also access your member data and modify them including your username and password. A new success story from FUNEN is now available. The development of the OpenECG Certification Service (its publication in the portal is imminent) has allowed a further improvement in the quality of the test set for the programming contest with the fixing of a couple of minor problems. This new test set (OpenECG certified) for the Programming Contest is now available in the Useful Information section in addition to the old one. It is still composed by the same 12 ECGs in 3 different formats: raw data, SCP with redundancy reduction and SCP with high compression. An OpenECG Information Day on OpenECG Certification for Interoperability will be held during the 30th Annual Conference on Computers in Cardiology in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 21, 2003. A second tutorial "How to implement SCP, Part II" is now available to the public. OpenECG presentations from the IEEE 1073 Working Group Meeting, January 13-17, 2003 (San Antonio, Texas) and from the International Congress on Electrocardiology, June 11-14, 2003 (Helsinki, Finland). A new test set for the Programming Contest is now available in the Useful Information section. This new test set replaces the old one and is composed of 12 ECGs in 3 different formats: raw data, SCP with redundancy reduction and SCP with high compression. The accuracies of all files in this test set have been carefully tested and are within the limits set by the standard. A section with information about the OpenECG Industry Advisory Board is now included. A tutorial section has been added to the portal. A first tutorial on "How to implement SCP, Part I" is now available to the public. The OpenECG mailing list is now open to members. To become a member of the OpenECG consortium, complete the application form. Search Google. The OpenECG Programming Contest is now open. The Proceedings of the 1^st OpenECG Workshop are now available.
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