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The Center is dedicated to improving care by accelerating the seamless flow of information among medical technologies and systems.
The Center’s membership consists of health systems and other provider organizations committed to eliminating current barriers to swift and seamless communication of patient information among medical devices and electronic health records. This will improve patient care by providing clinicians with quick and easy access to all relevant patient data in real time.
The lab, located in Nashville, serves as a research and development arm for its members to improve interoperability, which is the ability of information systems and technology to work smoothly and efficiently with each other. The Center’s technical experts and visiting engineers from industry work together to develop IT architectures, interfaces and specifications that can be consistently deployed by health systems, medical device manufacturers, electronic health record vendors and others. The lab certifies devices and software that meet the Center’s technical specifications. Clinicians explore the impact of technologies within the Transformation Learning Center at the lab to ensure solutions are safe, useful and satisfying for patients and their care teams.
“The opening of the headquarters and launch of the lab are enormous steps toward addressing the difficulties that health systems share in getting medical devices and electronic health records to ‘talk’ to each other,” said Mike Schatzlein, MD, chair of the Center’s board. “All too often, this prevents physicians and other caregivers from having complete information about a patient readily available when they make important treatment decisions. Enabling this type of seamless communication is crucial to improving patient safety and reducing clinician burnout”.
“The lab will help bring about a ‘plug-and-play’ environment for health care in which there is assured interoperability and connectivity inside and outside the hospital,” said Ed Cantwell, president and CEO of the Center. “An analogy would be the global ATM network that the banking industry uses to facilitate seamless and secure communication among a wide variety of equipment and institutions”.
The Center is holding a grand opening at the headquarters (8 City Blvd., Nashville) on April 6 to acquaint the community with its work and physical space, which was designed around a theme of “Follow the Flow of Data.” The cutting-edge facility is set up to foster cross-industry collaboration and innovation.
The not-for-profit Center is a joint initiative of some of the largest for-profit, not-for-profit and academic health systems in the United States – such as Hospital Corporation of America, Community Health Systems, LifePoint Health, Ascension Health and Vanderbilt University Medical Center – to facilitate the achievement of interoperability through a dedicated technical resource and the convening of leading experts in the field.
The Center works with its members to understand clinical, business and technical requirements, as well as the healthcare marketplace, in a vendor-neutral manner to develop solutions and share performance results to help drive adoption of common IT architectures, interfaces and specifications. This work is guided by a Technical Advisory Committee as well as a Clinical Transformation Advisory Committee, sub-groups of technical and clinical executives, respectively, from the Center’s member organizations.
About the Center for Medical Interoperability
The Center for Medical Interoperability is a 501(c)(3) cooperative research and development lab founded by health systems to simplify and advance data sharing among medical technologies and systems. We provide a centralized, vendor-neutral approach to performing technical work that enables person-centered care, testing and certifying devices and systems, and promoting the adoption of scalable solutions.
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