Archiving and exchange of digital ECGs: A review of existing data formats

Digital ECG is today a common practice but a universal format for its storage and exchange has never been widely implemented. The reason is linked on one side to the need of the manufacturing industry to (rightly) protect intellectual propriety and technology, but on the other to an inadequate effort of the research community to sufficiently enforce the use of digital ECG data. To some degree, and at least from a practical point of view, the problem is also linked to other factors, such as the need in some instances to protect patient-sensitive information, and whether digital exchanged data should also include annotations and measurements from an algorithm or by human intervention.
Source: Journal of Electrocardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Source Type: research