A HIGH PERFORMANCE DIGITAL MEDICAL DATA LINK TECHNOLOGY

医院和医疗保健中心希望扩展其当前的网络带宽和容量，以适应新的应用，而不需要在检修现有布线厂方面进行重大投资。然而，大多数医院和医疗建筑受到其铜线低带宽距离性能的限制。作为早期技术的遗产，铜线阻碍了能够管理、存储、归档和通信多媒体信息的多功能、高带宽医疗网络的创建。为了解决这一问题，物理光学公司(POC)提出了一种独特的数字数据链路技术，该技术将显著提高基于铜缆的数据链路的带宽距离性能。这项技术将利用现有医疗网络中庞大的铜线基础设施，在磁盘/档案系统、数字图像采集/分析站和医疗用户之间传输高容量的多媒体信息。第一阶段将专注于设计和制作医疗数据链的原型，然后在临床环境中对其进行测试和评估。第二阶段将开发用于高性能医疗数据网络应用的硬连线电子芯片组和设备/网络集成技术。我们还预计，拟议方法的成功开发将在铜基数据链路介质的数据速率和功能方面产生巨大飞跃。拟议的商业应用：由于增加了总体数据带宽和网络连接，拟议的网络模块将适用于许多医疗网络(如医疗保健提供系统、健康信息网络和电子病历)以及许多其他科学、环境和商业组织。此外，由此产生的产品将解决未来局域网和多媒体网络中的类似问题。

Hospitals and healthcare centers want to expand their current network bandwidth and capacity to accommodate new applications without making significant investments in overhauling existing wiring plants. However, most hospitals and medical buildings are constrained by the low bandwidth-distance performance of their copper wiring. A legacy from an earlier technology, copper wiring has hindered the creation of versatile, high-bandwidth medical networks capable of managing, storing, archiving, and communicating multimedia information. To solve this problem, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes a unique digital data link technology that will dramatically increase the bandwidth-distance performance of copper-based data links. This technology will utilize the vast copper wiring infrastructure in existing medical networks for high- capacity multimedia information transmission among disk/archive systems, digital image acquisition/analysis stations, and medical users. Phase I will focus on designing and prototyping a medical data link, then testing and evaluating it within a clinical environment. Phase II will develop a hard- wired electronic chip set and a device/network integration technique for high-performance medical data network applications. We also anticipate that the successful development of the proposed approach will create a quantum leap in data rates and functionality of copper-based data link media. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: Because of their increased overall data bandwidth and network connectivity, the proposed network modules will be applicable to many medical networks (such as health care delivery systems, health information networks, and electronic patient records) and to many other scientific, environmental, and commercial organizations. Moreover, the resulting products will solve similar problems in future local area networks and multimedia networks.