How medical devices help fill EHRs with clinically useful data for comparative effectiveness research and data interoperability. This talk was given at the IEEE Baltimore Section EMB Society.
Connected Medical Devices How medical devices help fill EHRs with clinically useful data for comparative effectiveness research and data interoperability Shahid N. Shah, CEO
2 www.netspective.com Who is Shahid? • 20+ years of software engineering and multi-site healthcare system deployment experience • 12+ years of healthcare IT and medical devices experience (blog at http://healthcareguy.com) • 15+ years of technology management experience (government, non-profit, commercial) • 10+ years as architect, engineer, and implementation manager on various EMR and EHR initiatives (commercial and non- profit) Author of Chapter 13, “You’re the CIO of your Own Office”
3 www.netspective.com www.netspective.com What’s this talk about? Health IT / MedTech Landscape • Data has potential to solve some hard healthcare problems and change how medical science is done. • The government is paying for the collection of clinical data (Meaningful Use or “MU”). • All the existing MU incentives promote the wrong kinds of data collection: unreliable, slow, and error prone. Key Takeaways • Medical devices are the best sources of quantifiable, analyzable, and reportable clinical data. • New devices must be designed and deployed to support inherent connectivity.
4 www.netspective.com What problems can data help solve? Cost per patient per procedure / treatment going up but without ability to explain why Cost for same procedure / treatment plan highly variable across localities Unable to compare drug efficacy across patient populations Unable to compare health treatment effectiveness across patients Variability in fees and treatments promotes fraud Lack of visibility of entire patient record causes medical errors
6 www.netspective.com www.netspective.com Data can change medical science The old way Identify problem Ask questions Collect data Answer questions The new way Identify data Generate questions Mine data Answer questions
8 www.netspective.com Evidence-based Medicine and Comparative Effectiveness Research Medical Technology Assessment (MTA) National Center for Health Technology Assessment Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Comparative Effective Research (CER) Early 1970s 1978 1990’s Today Success factor: large well-designed effectiveness studies with mountains of data
9 www.netspective.com AHRQ’s definition of CER process Identify new and emerging clinical interventions. Review and synthesize current medical research. Identify gaps between existing medical research and the needs of clinical practice. Promote and generate new scientific evidence and analytic tools. Train and develop clinical researchers. Translate and disseminate research findings to diverse stakeholders. Reach out to stakeholders via a citizens forum. Source: http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/index.cfm/what-is-comparative-effectiveness-research1/
10 www.netspective.com CER is about the patient • CER sounds like it’s all about the government and evidence-based medicine to contain healthcare costs but ultimately it’s about providing treatment comparison choices to help make informed decisions. • Healthcare professionals must deliver tools to the patient that can help the patient and their families select the right treatment options.
11 www.netspective.com Healthcare landscape background • The government (through Meaningful Use & ACO incentives) is paying for the collection of clinical data. • Medical devices are the best sources of quantifiable, analyzable, and reportable clinical data. • Most medical devices today are not connected so you do not have access to the best data. • New devices are being design and deployed to support connectivity.
13 www.netspective.com Unstructured patient data sources Patient Health Professional Labs & Diagnostics Medical Devices Biomarkers / Genetics Source Self reported by patient Observation s by HCP Computed from specimens Computed real-time from patient Computed from specimens Errors High Medium Low Time Slow Slow Medium Reliability Low Medium High Data size Megabytes Megabytes Megabytes Data type PDFs, images PDFs, images PDFs, images Availability Common Common Common Uncommon Uncommon
14 www.netspective.com Structured patient data sources Patient Health Professional Labs & Diagnostics Medical Devices Biomarkers / Genetics Source Self reported by patient Observations by HCP Specimens Real-time from patient Specimens Errors High Medium Low Low Low Time Slow Slow Medium Fast Slow Reliability Low Medium High High High Discrete size Kilobytes Kilobytes Kilobytes Megabytes Gigabytes Streaming size Gigabytes Gigabytes Availability Uncommon Common Somewhat Common Uncommon Uncommon
15 www.netspective.com The need for connected devices • Meaningful Use and CER advocates are promoting (structured) data collection for reduction of medical errors, analysis of treatments and procedures, and research for new methods. • All the existing MU incentives promote the wrong kinds of collection: unreliable, slow, and error prone. • Accurate, real-time, data is only available from connected medical devices
16 www.netspective.com Medical Device Connectivity is a must Most obvious benefit Least attention Most promising capability This talk focuses on connected devices
17 www.netspective.com It’s not as hard as we think… • Modern real-time operating systems (open source and commercial) are reliable for safety-critical medical-grade requirements. • Open standards such as TCP/IP , DDS, HTTP , and XMPP can pull vendors out of the 1980’s and into the 1990’s. • Open source and open standards that promote enterprise IT connectivity can pull vendors into the 2010’s and beyond.
18 www.netspective.com Sampling of OSS / open standards Project / Standard Subject area D G Comments Linux or Android Operating system OMG DDS (data distribution service) Publish and subscribe messaging Open standard with open source implementations AppWeb, Apache Web/app server OpenTSDB Time series database Open source project Mirth HL7 messaging engine Built on Mule ESB Alembic Aurion HIE, message exchange Successor to CONNECT HTML5, XMPP, JSON Various areas Don’t reinvent the wheel SAML, XACML Security and privacy DynObj, OSGi, JPF Plugin frameworks Build for extensibility
20 www.netspective.com Ask for better manageability Security • Is the device authorized? Inventory • Where is the device? Presence • Is a device connected? Teaming • Device grouping
22 www.netspective.com Appreciate tradeoffs Integration- friendliness Ease of validation The more connection- friendly a device, the harder it is to validate it Lesson: Demand Testability
24 www.netspective.com www.netspective.com Ultimate Architecture Core Device Components Security and Management Layer Device OS (QNX, Linux, Windows) Connectivity Layer (DDS, HTTP, XMPP) Plugin Container Don’t create your own OS! Security isn’t added later Think about Plugins from day 1 Connectivity is built-in, not added Build on Open Source Create code as a last resort
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