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.
Key trends picking up momentum in the field of healthcare. How GenAI is revolutionizing clinical workflows. The rise of ambient technologies in patient care. IoMT devices and SaMD solutions to enable patient care. Interoperability and automation of data. Cybersecurity to ensure the safety of personal data.
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.
Modern interoperable systems, data centralization, and a wide-angle view of inventory and usage trends are providing hospitals to proactively switch from a “push” to a “pull” supply chain management, allowing for active real-time inventory management and sourcing based on need.
CitiusTech Senior VP and Market Head, Healthcare Providers, John Squeo, shares five game-changing shifts that will redefine the future of US healthcare and unlock a more streamlined, accessible and patient-centric system.
Behavioral health providers were excluded from the 2009 HITECH Act, which contributed to significant disparities in EHR adoption between mental and physical health providers. The Behavioral Health Information Technology (BHIT) Coordination Act could help remedy this, yet regulatory and societal barriers to full interoperability remain.
For life sciences companies seeking to develop, deploy and successfully commercialize digital health products and solutions, the pathway to success can have many twists, turns and roadblocks. This article examines some of the major challenges to bringing digital health products to market and explores potential opportunities to ease the journey.
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.
Taking these compliance challenges into account will allow healthcare organizations to prepare for compliance audits, but more importantly it will help institutions address issues that result in a negative patient outcome.
The combination of medtech progress with strides in modern healthcare interoperability will enable preventive care in unprecedented ways.
