For over four decades, the medical device industry has wrestled with fragmented data exchange and proprietary integrations. HL7’s Device Interoperability FHIR Accelerator initiative offers a vendor-neutral framework to finally achieve plug-and-play interoperability—unlocking scalable, AI-powered MedTech innovation and improving patient outcomes.
Health IT interoperability advocacy group, The Sequoia Project released its latest Data Usability Implementation Guide including added guidance for receiving systems, advanced baseline requirements from USCDI V1, and more.
For “Systematic Testing of a Ventilator Remote Control System Towards Safe Use in Tele-Critical Care and Prolonged Care,” researchers developed a prototype system for network-based far remote-control of the NKV-550 critical care ventilator, with the goals of identifying and implementing foundational remote-control capabilities, and exploring essential performance, interoperability, and cybersecurity requirements.
MedTech is evolving from siloed products and devices to increasingly multi-functional and integrated digital systems, and device manufacturers are faced with significant challenges in bringing these connected solutions to market. Slow and expensive development lifecycles, complex and inflexible device architectures, and the need for increased cybersecurity, are among the key challenges. The solution lies in a new generation of devices powered by intelligent software data flow.
The blueprint includes opportunities for various healthcare stakeholders to contribute to the full optimization of digitally enabled care and includes case examples featuring organizations with care models that leverage the blueprint’s six pillars.
With the ever-increasing adoption of connected devices, the agency is emphasizing the need for effective cybersecurity.
The combination of medtech progress with strides in modern healthcare interoperability will enable preventive care in unprecedented ways.
A global pandemic is still upon us, but that certainly does not mean that healthcare technology innovation is standing still. To help the medical device industry look to the future and prepare, experts from regulation and academia alike are bringing attention to the acceleration and pitfalls of innovation.
Due to rapidly evolving regulatory landscape and manufacturing demands, label requirements and the information they contain are constantly changing. Here’s how medtech organizations can manage the process.
As organizations continue to use technology to enhance the way they provide care, changes must be made to ensure the interoperability of the technology, patient data and continuity between providers.
