What is it about?
An increasing number of medical devices help to improve patients‘ care and therapy. However, a network of devices and systems could even be more beneficial and could decrease error-proneness e.g. when operating various different user interfaces: touchscreen operation, hard buttons, switches, monochrome and color displays etc.
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Why is it important?
We aim to give manufacturers of medical devices and systems a motivation for collaborating. This is the first step for interoperability and thus for a networked operation room and the „hospital 4.0“.
Perspectives
I hope that this article will contribute to a better visibility of the IEEE Standard that we have already developed. This standard is the basis for interoperability between medical devices and systems...! However, now a „critical mass“ is needed to establish the developed libraries and protocols. This is important for us clinicians but also for the sake of our patients!
Michael Czaplik
University Hospital RWTH Aachen
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This page is a summary of: Why OR.NET? Requirements and perspectives from a medical user’s, clinical operator’s and device manufacturer’s points of view, Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik, December 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/bmt-2017-0043.
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