SCP-ECG, which stands for Standard communications protocol for computer assisted electrocardiography, is a standard for ECG traces, annotations, and metadata

Metadata

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, that specifies the interchange format and a messaging procedure for ECG cart-to-host communication and for retrieval of SCP-ECG records from the host to the ECG cart. It is defined in the joint ANSI

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AAMI

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 standard EC71:2001 and in the CEN

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 standard EN 1064:2005.

History

The SCP Standard was first developed between 1989 to 1991 during a European AIM R&D project.

External links

• "OpenECG" — The [OpenECG] Group supports SCP-ECG by providing and supporting open source
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  implementations and consistent application the standard.