Implementation of medical information bus (MIB) at LDS Hospital

Abstract

Medical Information Bus (MIB) is a standard designed to allow different medical instrument manufacturers to transmit data from their instruments to a host computer. The authors felt that such a system, if developed without any field experience and feedback from end users, might be impractical. Therefore, they developed and implemented an MIB system using IV pumps. The MIB standard at that time was used for the system development. After a few trials and design modifications based on the user feedback, a system was designed to collect data from IV pumps. The system includes device communication controllers as the pump-MIB interface and a master communication controller capable of communicating with up to 254 devices in one unit as the host interface. The MIB host system software on a Charles River Data Systems micromini and host system was modified to acquire data for HELP, the hospital information system.