Medical device Interoperability: Good or bad?

1. Medical device Interoperability: Good or bad?
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2. Interoperability summit
• An interoperability summit was organized to discuss
a big technical challenge: how to improve safety and
connectivity for the vast array of medical and
information technology that exists in the healthcare
industry today
• It is an area which most practices, healthcare centers
and hospital networks are struggling to handle
• The question arises, why interoperability now? When
there have been problems with multiple devices
running on the same platform and patient data leaks
prompting security concerns

3. How interoperability affects?
• Standardize to achieve success
– If you have standardized and shared goals for
interoperability, you will have a better chance to improve
safety, effectiveness and efficiency of the medical
technology being used
• Align incentives, expectations, roles and
responsibilities
– Multiple incentives, leadership in healthcare delivery
organizations and expertise of system integrators – all
focused on patient safety and clinical need – will empower
healthcare organizations to use interoperable medical
technology to improve quality and safety

4. How interoperability affects?
• Drive patient safety with systematic approach to
design and implementation
– You must understand that interoperability is a system
which will reduce risk, improve clinical efficacy and
optimize the value of medical technology investments
• Improve regulatory clarity
– You must create a clear line of authority at your practice.
This will reduce patient risks and improve the
development, design, approval process and
implementation of interoperable medical technology

5. How interoperability affects?
• Streamline clinical workflow to improve ROI
– A standardized, coordinated and comprehensive clinical
workflow will largely improve clinical efficiency and
effectiveness of processes related to patient care
• Remove barriers with shared learning
– If you have transparent methods about measuring success
and failures and make better use of data from robust,
interoperable medical technology, it will create
a knowledge base which will ultimately be used to improve
your practice workflows and patient care

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