Use a MedicalDeviceInput node
in a message flow to collect data from medical devices. You can develop
your message flow to transfer this data to clinical applications,
for example, to send to a data warehouse or to be displayed on an
information dashboard.
Before you begin
Before you start:
About this task
You can collect data from medical devices to use in a message
flow by using a MedicalDeviceInput node.
Procedure
To use the data from medical devices in message flows,
complete the following steps:
- Collect connection information about your medical devices.
For example, the host name and port number for devices that
are connected by LAN.
You can use a
MedicalDeviceInput node with medical
devices that are connected by serial port or by LAN. If you use the
documentation that is integrated with the
IBM Integration
Toolkit, you can read more information
about connections to medical devices; see
Medical device catalog.
- Create a message flow and add a MedicalDeviceInput node to the message
flow. See Adding a MedicalDeviceInput node.
- Create a configurable service for your MedicalDeviceInput node. See Configuring a MedicalDeviceInput node.
The configurable
service contains the configuration information for the medical devices
that the node connects to.
- Edit the configurable service for your MedicalDeviceInput node. See Editing the configurable service for a MedicalDeviceInput node.
- Add device connections to the configurable service.
See Adding a device connection.
A device
connection contains the connection parameters of a medical device.
- Add measurement sets to the configurable service. See Adding a measurement set.
A measurement
set specifies the medical measurements that are collected from a medical
device.
-
Complete your message flow, which contains the MedicalDeviceInput node.
For more information about developing integration solutions, see
Developing message flows in the IBM Integration Bus product
documentation.
- Deploy the configurable service for your MedicalDeviceInput node. See Deploying the configurable service for a MedicalDeviceInput node.
- Deploy the message flow for your MedicalDeviceInput node. See Deploying a message flow that contains a MedicalDeviceInput node.
What to do next
Next:Test and debug your integration solution to check that it works correctly.
See Testing and troubleshooting
message flows in the IBM Integration Bus product
documentation.