Connectivity Standards Adoption Over Time

I was listening today to the CE-IT Webinar on CE and HIT from the 2014 AAMI conference in Philadelphia. Much of the session reviewed what has happened over the last five years and it got me thinking about my experiences and what I’ve seen over the last ten years in medical device connectivity and remote monitoring. It’s been an interesting ride and yet I realize there are a few basic ideas that have resonated over the years. These basic ideas are: Specifying those requirements that are unique to my situation are where I have the most control in acquisition; There are other players in the market who may change the landscape of what is available to me; and, The government may require something which can constrain my options. Ten years ago, I was working for a very large integrated healthcare system as a clinical engineer. One of my projects was to choose and implement the medical device integration system for integrating patient monitoring and ventilator data into the ICU charting portion of our EMR system. There were three main vendors at the time which weren’t part of the large medical device companies and eventually we chose one of the major ones for the system. My responsibility was to ensure the device data went from the device at bedside to the device integration server and out to the interface broker to the EMR application. While choosing the device integration product, I had to keep in mind my healthcare enterprise infrastructure. I had thirteen hospitals that ...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Tags: Business Planning connectivity Standards & Regulatory Wireless Medical Devices Source Type: blogs