FDA Recognition of Medical Device Standards for Interoperability
This is a follow-up to Interoperability: Arrested Progress. The FDA has recognized voluntary interoperability standards for medical devices: Improving Patient Care by Making Sure Devices Work Well...
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The Internet of Medical Devices
The Internet of Things (IoT) is being propelled by the dramatic reduction in size, power consumption, and cost of networking and computing capability. Many of the devices listed in the Wolfram...
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Services, Not Sensors
The Internet Of Things: The Real Money Is The Internet, Not The Things (my highlight): The trick will be whether hardware companies will push hard enough for standardization so they can capitalize on...
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Interoperable Healthcare
This is a good read: Healthcare Innovation Day 2014: Igniting an Interoperable Healthcare System (warning: PDF). Healthcare is the one industry that’s been the slowest to adopt the intelligent methods...
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An Unhealthy Lack Of Standards
The reality of healthcare interoperabilty is going mainstream: Apple Launches HealthKit To Share Vital Stats With Nike, Mayo Clinic: The problem Apple will run into: No one agrees on how to measure...
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I had been reading about “internet of things” (IoT) connectivity standards groups (links below) when I came across Bridget Moorman’s post Connectivity Standards Adoption Over Time. I made an...
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Americans Killed by Medical Errors Today
Current events have sparked popular tweets like this: As referenced by the West Health To Err is Human: Interoperability is Divine article, based on a 300,000 annual death rate, the following could be...
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Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
The HL7 FHIR (pronounced “fire”) standard has been under development for a while. It became a Draft Standard for Trial Use (see DSTU Considerations) in Jan 2014. The recent announcement of the vendor...
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Even the IoT (Internet of Things) world is concerned about interoperability: Do We Really Want Empires of Connected Things? Here are a couple of key quotes: …little hope for open standards or a...
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The Real Impediment to Interoperability
Medical device interoperability is one of my favorite subjects. With the meteoric rise of IoT, there’s more and more discussion like this: Why we badly need standardization to advance IoT. The...
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