Why Interoperability Has a Bright Future with Rob Brull

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In this Episode

• 00:01:06– Importance of Connecting Software with Hospital Data
• 00:10:11 – Transitioning from Legacy Data Formats to FHIR
• 00:13:16 – Filtering and Structuring Data for Medical Device Companies
• 00:14:13 – Overcoming Hurdles in Data Sharing
• 00:21:24 – Telling the Story of Device Value with Data

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I think if you step back and look at it from a high level, you know, it just has to do with patient care and quality of care. So the more data you can get in, the richer the data, the better the result is going to be for the patient. And that’s, of course, the goal at the end of the day.

Rob Brull

Data impacts healthcare at all levels. So, what we see from a vendor perspective is, how can vendors make better decisions for their devices? How can they do analytics and help understand how their devices are working? And that impacts their product roadmap, impacts how they develop and what they want to focus on for the future, and how they position themselves as a leader for their particular device.

Rob Brull

There is this light at the end of the tunnel that we’re getting to a place where we can get to the data in a more efficient, normalistic way, store it consistently, have the apps just connect to it. Everybody’s data is the same.

Rob Brull

Every device vendor has smart developers on staff that are developing the product, that are used to using modern standards. They know about web services. They know about JSON. They’ve been wanting to do this stuff for a long time. And for them to finally have the brains taken off of them and have access to this data and the FHIR standard, the idea of that is pretty exciting.

Rob Brull