A Middleware of DICOM and Web Service for Home-based Elder Healthcare Information System

Developing properly information technology in order to overcome the lack of manpower will be one of main issue in a developed country. The numerous vital signals and image data which were archived by the devices and were modified by information technology would support physician or computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system for diagnosis. Therefore, in order to avoid erroneous identification, the encoded formats are necessary to be unified for communicating within heterogeneous information systems. In this study we designed a home-based elder healthcare information system which was established by Microsoftreg XP operation system. And, the DICOM was used as the core of data file format to reserve the profit, Microsoft SQL server as the database to store and manage the encoded DICOM files, and IIS to provide Web service for families and health care providers to viewing the data saved in the database. Results show that a vital signal is easy to obtain in Web browser as users request thru this system.