Here at the first session for “Clinical Engineering Symposium Interoperability”. This first session will last up to four hours with great speakers.The session was packed standing room only. It started off with James P. Keller, Jr., Vice President Technology Evaluation and Safety, ECRI Institute. Device interoperability is not easy..and definitely the industry needs to have some sort of standarization. The majority of integration over the past twenty years has been somewhat very basic data from monitors, but not just waveforms. IHE and Continua will continue to drive the HL7 standarization to the EMR. However it is up to the provider market to drive this in their RFP(s) for this interoperability, not just manufacturing specific. I do not know why the industry needs to wait another ten plus years to make this all happen. It sounds like if the provider (hospital), drives this as a requirement in their RFP(s), and RFI(s), it will happen faster. Definitly ECRI is helping the industry raise huge visibility in this regard.
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