The Challenge: How can we integrate medical devices to improve the safety of medical care?
Medical devices are essential to the practice of modern medicine. Clinical measurements like blood pressure and temperature, x-ray and ultrasound imaging, administration of intravenous medications, and support of critical life functions all require medical devices. However, despite our reliance on sophisticated medical equipment, each device is not designed to interconnect with other devices. Therefore, it is difficult to connect individual devices into integrated medical systems to improve patient care and avoid unnecessary accidents.
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The Medical Device "Plug-and-Play" Interoperability (or MD PnP) program is a inter-disciplinary, multi-institutional program committed to advancing medical device interoperability to improve patient safety and healthcare efficiency. Networked medical device systems will support the widespread clinical use of medical data and enable medical device integration, to produce complete and accurate electronic health records, create error-resistant systems, and reduce healthcare costs.
The MD PnP program is based at CIMIT and the Massachusetts General Hospital (part of the Partners HealthCare System). We welcome your participation.
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Oct 2008 - Scientific Exhibit at the American Society of Anesthesiologists annual meeting on
"MD FIRE" - Medical Device Free Interoperability Requirements for the Enterprise.
Through an MD PnP Program collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare, Kaiser Permanente,and Johns Hopkins Medicine, we developed sample medical device purchasing requirements for interoperability to accelerate the availability and adoption of interoperable equipment.
Download the ASA Scientific Exhibit handout (2-page PDF).
More information about MD FIRE and the complete document is available from this page.
September 2008 - Update on ASTM F29.21 ICE Standard
ASTM Subcommittee F29.21 "Devices in the Integrated Clinical Environment", has been drafting a standard for the "Patient-centric Integrated Clinical Environment", or ICE. (Listed as ASTM WK19878.)
"Part 1: General requirements and conceptual model", is almost complete. Please contact us if you would like to participate.
July 2008 - World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists endorses medical device interoperability
The WFSA , which has 122 member societies worldwide, stated that "intercommunication and interoperability of devices could lead to important advances in patient safety".
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