IHE PCD at AAMI 2013
The Patient Care Device Domain of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Invites You to Learn More
The IHE PCD provided demonstrations of interoperable messages at the 2013 AAMI meeting. This Wiki page summarizes the demonstration and provides information and links to make additional information readily available.
The Demonstrations
The PCD Domain demonstrated the benefits of currently available standards-based messaging for:
- • Physiologic and certain device operational data
- • Alarms, alerts, events and location as desired to clinicians or to electronic records (e.g., EMRs, CISs).
- • Infusion pump medication delivery for improved safety (support of the five rights medication administration)
- • Implantable cardiac device data (not demonstrated)
The following were demonstrated to showcase efforts that are just beginning:
- • Device condition and status messages to CMMS – enabling improved device management, increased safety, cost savings, regulatory compliance and increasing user satisfaction
- E.g., device failure, self-test results, battery condition, operational status, versions, patches
- • Location Services – messages from RTLS systems to CMMS
- E.g., locating the device with a failure alert, providing users with location in biomed and facilitating communication between biomed and user
- • Combined CMMS/LS data – enable proactive response to failure or marginal performance (potentially before the user is aware), to improve management of capital equipment and better purchasing/rental decisions relying upon increased accuracy of utilization data
Other work is underway. This includes messages that don't rise to the level of alarms; i.e., they are of interest but don't require immediate intervention. To learn more about messaging alerts and events and other work in process please contact the PCD: pcd@accenet.org.
Posters From the Booth Are Available
You may find the posters helpful in discussions and education. These are available for your use if you don't edit/modify them. If you share any please credit the IHE and PCD who retain copyright ownership unless another copyright owner is identified.
Posters are found at ftp://ftp.ihe.net/Patient_Care_Devices/Showcases/AAMI2013June_Posters/.
An effort was made to make the poster file names easy to understand. To make finding a few easier:
- Introductory Posters:
- IHE & MEM Poster (IHE and PCD high level with Medical Equipment Management described
- Device Connectivity (Wheel)
- User Handbook
- Standards for Clinical Device Connectivity
- Commercially Available
- IV Pump and Medication Delivery
- PIV Poster
- IPEC Poster
- Of Particular Interest to Developers
- Rosetta Terminology Management
- Standards for Clinical Device Connectivity
- NIST AAMI13
- Completing the Last Mile
- The Acronyms
- ACM: Alert Communication Management; DEC: Device Enterprise Communication; EC: Event Communication; WCM: Waveform Content Module;
Handouts are Available
Please refer to the handouts found at ftp://ftp.ihe.net/Patient_Care_Devices/Showcases/AAMI2013June_Handouts/
To Learn More
More information about the IHE is at http://www.ihe.net and about the PCD is at http://www.ihe.net/pcd
To Participate
Organizational membership in IHE: http://www.ihe.net under Governance
Participation in the PCD: email pcd@accenet.org