- Improving Medical Device Safety by Collecting Unique Identifier Data
- Key Steps to Achieve Increased Healthcare Interoperability
Nashville-based C4MI explained that it has worked with medical device vendors and healthcare organizations to create a trust platform architecture and supporting specifications to speed the development of interoperable medical devices and systems.
The C4MI Verified program will enable plug-and-play medical device interoperability by improving data quality for the industry through semantic and syntactic conformance to the requirements in the center’s specifications. By improving the mapping of patient vital sign data from multiple device vendors into core systems, data will be more usable for clinicians to improve treatment and outcomes. The program will also verify security and provisioning capabilities of the patient monitoring systems.
The Patient Vitals Program will be the first C4MI Verified project to launch, with more planned in other areas such as ventilators.
C4MI’s members include LifePoint Hospitals, Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, HCA Healthcare, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Hennepin Healthcare System, Ascension Health, Community Health Systems, Scripps Health, and UNC Health Care System. They have a combined $200 billion in annual health IT buying power
“The center is a health system-led initiative to ensure that technologies work seamlessly together to improve the care of patients we serve. We are pleased that the leadership model of this program is aligned with an industry procurement-driven approach which was recently outlined in the National Academy report,” said Jeff Balser, MD, immediate past chairman of the C4MI board and president and CEO of Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
“HCA Healthcare-affiliated hospitals are now using an algorithm-driven, real-time system based on patient vital signs and other data to detect sepsis earlier and accelerate treatment,” said Jonathan Perlin, MD, HCA Healthcare’s chief medical officer and president of the clinical services group.
“Continuous improvement in the quality of data is critical to the scaling of analytics across our health system and the C4MI Verified program will help standardize medical device-sourced data and ultimately lead to improved patient care,” said Marty Paslick, HCA Healthcare’s chief information officer.
“We are pleased to see the center launch its first verification program. The program will enable healthcare organizations to have confidence that the solutions they purchase will be interoperable,” said Dean Harrison, chairman of the C4MI board and president and CEO of Northwestern Memorial Healthcare. “Both buyers and suppliers of healthcare technology stand to benefit when the marketplace shifts to support products and solutions that better serve the needs of patients and providers.”
