Improving healthcare safety and accelerating innovation
MD PnP — the Medical Device "Plug-and-Play" Interoperability & Cybersecurity Program
The Challenge:
How can we make better use of medical technology to improve the safety of health care?
Medical devices are essential to the practice of modern medicine. Clinical measurements such as blood pressure and temperature, x-ray and ultrasound imaging, administration of intravenous medications, and support of critical life functions all require medical devices. However, despite our reliance on sophisticated medical equipment, most devices are not designed to interconnect with other devices and are not inherently secure. Therefore, it is difficult to connect individual devices into integrated clinical environments to improve patient care, avoid unnecessary accidents, and obtain comprehensive data to personalize care delivery.
The Answer
Facilitate the development and adoption of standards and interoperable technologies for Integrated Clinical Environments (ICE).
Since its establishment in 2004, the Medical Device “Plug-and-Play” (MD PnP) Interoperability Program has been enabling the adoption of medical device interoperability as a foundation for the cost-effective development of interoperable medical devices and innovative medical “apps” running on open health platforms (OHPs). There are broad uses of these capabilities including rapid development and deployment of apps for diagnosis and treatment, research, safety and quality improvements, equipment management, and adverse event detection and reporting when using networked medical devices for clinical care. The last twenty years of research, development, and testing has enabled us to stand up our Smart and Autonomous Medical Systems (SaAMS) Center of Excellence (COE).
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