Standards-based Integration: What will it deliver? Will we be any better off?

Todd Cooper
Breakthrough Solutions, San Diego USA

Time: 27 November 2008, 18:00 AEDT (Refreshments from 17:30)

Venue: Charles La Trobe Theatre, Main Ward Block, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, 300 Grattan St, Parkville VIC 3050

Abstract

The presentation will provide an overview of international efforts working to define standards and interoperability profiles that promise to deliver medical device interoperability, both technical and semantic, from the sensor to the HER, from the bedroom to the OR and between Countries. The presentation also covers the rapid convergence of Clinical Engineering and healthcare IT, which has resulted in the creation of various organizations and resulted in the updated regulatory definition of medical devices to include “stand-alone software”, only to beg the question about when these applications are actually classified as devices vs healthcare applications. Integration of systems is presenting unique integration and management issues that require the application of life-cycle based risk management.

Biography

Todd is an expert in the area of Medical Device Informatics and Interoperability. Over the last 20 years, he has served as a software architect on numerous medical device projects, including infusion systems and ventilators. Since the late 90’s his main focus has been medical device communication and informatics, working with manufacturers, standards-based organizations and health care providers.

Todd holds a number of leadership positions in the medical device and health IT standards arena and recently acted as one of the Keynote Speakers at the EPSM-ABEC 2008 Conference held in New Zealand.