If medical devices were better integrated with IT systems and made to follow standards for interoperability with each other and with electronic health records, the U.S. healthcare industry could ...

FDA says it plans to release this year a draft guidance on medical device interoperability. Speaking at an Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology conference on medical ...

While healthcare policy efforts have focused on data sharing between electronic health record systems, they have overlooked fragmented data in medical devices, contend researchers, who want to see an ...

Nashville-based Center for Medical Interoperability is launching an industrywide verification program to confirm medical device interoperability. The project, called C4MI Verified, will test and ...

Mobile devices may be enabling nurses to do more at the point of care, but a new survey indicates those devices are causing nurses to do more work and less care – and with dangerous consequences. The ...

While health IT has the potential to make significant improvements in efficiency in healthcare organizations, it presents patient safety risks. In November, the Institute of Medicine published a ...

Designers looking to create a successful IoT device need to be sure that their system will be interoperable with other devices and systems, both old and new. Standards such as zigbee have helped to ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The notion of device interoperability in the digital home will take another step toward reality next month when the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) announces a certification and ...

“True functional medical device interoperability improves patient care, increases efficiency and results in more than $30 billion a year in healthcare savings.” So said Joseph M. Smith, MD, PhD, chief ...