Building a Medical Grade IoT System

Vlad Stirbu

IoT Tampere Meetup

10.04.2017

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Vlad Știrbu

Principal Software Engineer

Nokia Technologies, Digital Health

 

vlad.stirbu@nokia.com

@VladStirbu

github.com/vstirbu

Digital Health @NokiaTECH

What makes it special

How are we doing it

Courtesy of Beecham Research

Our ​pilot with HUS

In a typical IoT system...

Patient's safety concerns

  • Regulation
    • Health Information Privacy and Accountability Act
    • Medical Device {Directive|Regulation}
  • Certification
  • Risk classification
  • Technical standards

Untanglement plan

The toolbox

  • µ-services
    • APIs
    • data persistence
  • pipelines
    • µservice|kafka|storm
  • ​containers

A time perspective...

1970

1990

2010

2030

2050

ARPANET

TCP/IP

WWW

AWS

6lowPAN

Hadoop

FHIR

CoAP

Educated

guesses 🤞

Takeaways...

  • Safety first
  • Take the long view (with consideration)
  • Make failure points explicit

Thanks!

https://slides.com/vladstirbu/building-a-medical-grade-iot-system

Building a Medical Grade IoT System

By Vlad Stirbu

Building a Medical Grade IoT System

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