Session #SPE21: Medical Device Interoperability for Improving Safety and Efficiency
Sponsored by the ASA Committee on EMIT
Sunday, October 15, 12:30 – 2:30pm
Room N229, McCormick Place
Description:
Despite our reliance on sophisticated medical devices, each device is designed to stand alone as an island. Anesthesiologists, stimulated by a technology-filled and internet-connected world, have numerous creative ideas to leverage the integration of health information and medical device systems to improve patient safety and healthcare efficiency. However, due to the lack of medical device connectivity – or “interoperability”, it is difficult to integrate multiple devices to support the widespread clinical use of medical device data to produce complete and accurate electronic health records, reduce medical errors, and reduce healthcare costs. This session provides an overview of recent national activities in this area, addresses the clinical implications, and includes an opportunity for attendees to provide examples of medical device connectivity that could solve current clinical problems, improve safety or efficiency, or enable innovative clinical systems of the future. For additional information, please see the May 2006 ASA Newsletter http://www.asahq.org/Newsletters/2006/05-06/goldman05_06.html.
Speakers:
Julian M. Goldman, MD, President, Society for Technology in Anesthesia
Jeffrey B. Cooper, PhD, Executive Vice President, Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation
Keith J. Ruskin, MD, Chair, ASA Committee on Electronic Media & IT (EMIT)
Donald E. Martin, MD, Chair, ASA Committee on Technology and Facilities
William G. Horton, MD, ASA Lansdale [Congressional] Public Policy Fellow
Sandy Weininger, PhD, U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Office of Science & Engineering Laboratories
Agenda:
12:30 – 12:35 Session overview and introductions (Goldman)
12:35 – 12:45 Welcome: Committee on EMIT focus on interoperability (Ruskin)
12:45 – 12:55 Can interoperability support improvements in patient safety? (Cooper)
12:55 – 1:20 Recent advances in achieving interoperability: the MD PnP Program (Goldman)
1:20 – 1:35 What Interoperability means for anesthesiologists: a view from The Hill (Horton)
1:35 – 1:45 What drives the adoption of new technology? (Martin)
1:45 – 2:00 Using interoperability to support clinical requirements (Weininger)
2:00 – 2:25 Participants are invited to provide examples of medical device connectivity
that could solve current clinical problems, improve safety or efficiency, or
enable innovative clinical systems of the future.
2:25 – 2:30 Wrap-up
If you have ideas about how medical device connectivity could solve current clinical problems, improve safety or efficiency, or enable innovative clinical systems of the future, please go to
http://mdpnp.org/ and join the discussion.