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 ...

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 ...

FDA says it plans to release this year a draft guidance on medical device interoperability.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 ...

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 ...

The project supports efforts to establish connectivity between medical devices in order to reduce accidental death or injury due to medical errors. “We want to make it harder for mistakes to be made,” ...

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 ...

The Storage Management Initiative-Specification Test Suite, developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association, has entered its beta testing phase. The suite is a series of interoperability ...

OSLO, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elliptic Labs (OSE: ELABS), a global AI software company and the world leader in AI Virtual Smart Sensors™, currently deployed in over 500 million devices, is announcing ...

SIA has opened the OSDP Transparent Mode configuration to all security industry players, enhancing secure device ...

With Bluetooth set to roll out in masses this year, interoperability is again at the forefront of designers' minds. Clearly, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has spent a significant amount ...

“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 ...