Drivers and Barriers in Medical Connectivity
I’ve been wrapping up a pretty big project and so posting has been light this week. I do have some things that caught my eye this week that I will post later this weekend. Earlier this week I was asked:
- what connectivity capabilies are being built into medical devices now,
- what factors are driving these changes, and
- what barriers in your area(s), what are they?
The biggest trends driving what I call medical connectivity are EMR integration, workflow automation and alarm notification.
The basic capabilities required to meet the above include:
- the ability to establish patient context, acquire and transmit data from the medical device
- a server to capture, store, queue and transmit data (optionally, an HL7 interface for EMR integration, and logic to analyze data)
- client applications (usually served up by the server) to enter, review and edit patient data.
