Fierce Healthcare September 4, 2019
Nashville-based Center for Medical Interoperability is launching an industry-wide verification program to confirm medical device interoperability.
The project, called C4MI Verified, will test and verify medical devices to determine compliance with selected interoperability specification requirements, the Center announced Wednesday morning.
Working collaboratively with medical device vendors and its member health care organizations, the nonprofit Center for Medical Interoperability created a platform architecture and supporting specifications to ensure that different medical devices and systems communicate in a common language. The C4MI Verified program will first tackle patient vitals data, with more programs planned in other areas such as ventilators, the organization said.
The new program will help enable what’s referred to as “plug-and-play” interoperability by improving data quality for the...