Advanced ECG interpretation routines as world-distributed web services

Abstract

The manufacturers of ECG equipment usually face the advanced interpretation routines implementation problem. The development of these routines entails great financial expenditures, however for their specificity, the customers rarely demand them. This paper proposes a distributed computing approach to the advanced interpretation routines. Our proposal assumes each cardiologic issue to be interpreted by an unique specialized center automatically or with a human expert assistance if necessary. The interpretation service is accessible through the web for distant clients meeting the selection criteria. These may include customers of a particular enterprise, members of a given society or subscribed individual cardiologists. Among numerous advantages of this proposal, the most important is world wide unification of methods since most complicated software have to be developed only once and remain undisclosed to the others.