TY - GEN
T1 - Storing health data in JPEG
T2 - 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, MEDINFO 2013
AU - Hiramatsu, Tatsuo
AU - Nohara, Yasunobu
AU - Nakashima, Naoki
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - Formats for data storage in personal computers vary according to manufacturer and models for personal health-monitoring devices such as blood-pressure and body-composition meters. In contrast, the data format of images from digital cameras is unified into a JPEG format with an Exif area and is already familiar to many users. We have devised a method that can contain health data as a JPEG file. Health data is stored in the Exif area in JPEG in a HL7 format. There is, however, a capacity limit of 64 KB for the Exif area. The aim of this study is to examine how much health data can actually be stored in the Exif area. We found that even with combined data from multiple devices, it was possible to store over a month of health data in a JPEG file, and using multiple JPEG files simply overcomes this limit. We believe that this method will help people to more easily handle health data regardless of the various device modelsthey use.
AB - Formats for data storage in personal computers vary according to manufacturer and models for personal health-monitoring devices such as blood-pressure and body-composition meters. In contrast, the data format of images from digital cameras is unified into a JPEG format with an Exif area and is already familiar to many users. We have devised a method that can contain health data as a JPEG file. Health data is stored in the Exif area in JPEG in a HL7 format. There is, however, a capacity limit of 64 KB for the Exif area. The aim of this study is to examine how much health data can actually be stored in the Exif area. We found that even with combined data from multiple devices, it was possible to store over a month of health data in a JPEG file, and using multiple JPEG files simply overcomes this limit. We believe that this method will help people to more easily handle health data regardless of the various device modelsthey use.
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-1001
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-1001
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 23920775
AN - SCOPUS:84894307153
SN - 9781614992882
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
BT - MEDINFO 2013 - Proceedings of the 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics
PB - IOS Press
Y2 - 20 August 2013 through 23 August 2013
ER -