Medical Device Interoperability: Unattainable or Inevitable? An Interview With Julian M. Goldman, MD

Article preview from Medtech Insight- December 1, 2010

Electronic medical records will drive increasing demand for standards-based medical device interoperability, an advance that could enable real-time population of the EMR and the development of "smart" systems capable of integrating disparate clinical information. But what are the issues surrounding medical device interoperability? And what it mean for medical device manufacturers? Medtech Insight interviews Julian Goldman, MD, the founding director of Medical Device Plug-and-Play Interoperability Program at the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innnovative Technology.

Medical Device Interoperability: Unattainable or Inevitable? An Interview With Julian M. Goldman, MD

Article preview from Medtech Insight- December 1, 2010

The functionality and complexity of medical devices has grown dramatically over the past several decades, yet the medical device industry lags behind most modern-day consumer electronic devices in one big way: device interconnectivity. Device manufacturers have traditionally developed products that operate independently of one another and that cannot easily be interfaced. As a result, when hospitals want to integrate cross-vendor medical devices, they must develop customized interfaces, which are costly, typically have a long development time, and suffer from incomplete functionality.

All of this could be about to change as hospitals continue to move toward adoption of the electronic medical record (EMR). EMRs will drive increasing demand for standards-based medical device interoperability, an advance that could enable real-time population of the EMR and the development of "smart" systems capable of integrating disparate clinical information.

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