Improving Patient Safety and Clinical Workflow: System Integration through Medical Device Interoperability
Moderator: Peter Szolovits, PhD, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard/MIT Duivision of Health Sciences and Technology; Head, Clinical Decision-Making Group, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Speaker: Julian Goldman, MD, Medical Director of Biomedical Engineering, Partners HealthCare; Principal Anesthesiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital "Operating Room of the Future"; CIMIT Director of Interoperability; Founder, Medical Device "Plug-and-Play" Interoperability Program
The absence of open standards and related technologies for cross-vendor point-of-care medical device integration is impeding national efforts to revolutionize the delivery of safe, efficient, high-acuity patient care. In contrast to the Internet – which was designed for ease of connectivity, and not specifically for safety, reliability and security – high-acuity health care requires connectivity to and from medical devices in a manner that permits the functional integration of device capabilities into a network and the EHR. A foundational step toward realizing this goal will be the implementation of standards-based medical device interoperability as broadly implemented as the Internet. Dr. Goldman will describe the leadership necessary to keep an endeavor of this magnitude on track to deliver clinically meaningful solutions.
Panel Discussion
Forum participants above, and: Andrew Reisner, MD, Emergency Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; holds appointments at Harvard Medical School, MIT, and US Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center
Fully integrated clinical environments will support real-time decision support, complete clinical documentation, and closed-loop therapy. Despite these important clinical benefits there have been longstanding challenges to successful implementation. Our panelists will add their perspective on current and historical efforts to leveraging clinical and information technologies to enable healthcare innovation.
CIMIT blog is a publication of the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)
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