Justin Ramsaran, CEO of R Group, discusses medical device interoperability and why isolated clinical AI tools create new operational silos in healthcare.
Opinion
Ramsaran: Epic and Cerner maintain data silos to preserve competitive advantage
“And if you are in the Epic platform, you can't talk to the Cerner platform, right? It's how they kind of keep their Competition, but also keep the information within these own silos as well.”
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Ramsaran: Healthcare AI Will Always Require a Human in the Loop
“So for me, augmentation, I think you'll still always have a human in the loop in the healthcare space.”
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Ramsaran: Clinicians spend 80% of their day updating medical records
“What's occurred is you've got clinicians being away from the bedside, and there's now inside of the terminal, we'll call it, but the medical records, 80% of the day taking notes and updating information, reducing what's going on at the bedside care standpoint.”
Insight
Ramsaran: Proprietary vendor connections keep medical device interoperability fragmented
“Interoperability continues to be fragmented because each solution vendor is coming out with their own proprietary connection. You've got, you know, we'll, we'll call it the big names, but if you've got a patient monitor and a ventilator, you've got to use this…”
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Ramsaran: Data exchange frameworks will force medical device makers into open architectures
“That comes from a downstream of areas too, where it will start to impact medical device manufacturers needing to meet, be more data oriented, and be able to have more open architectures and the ways that they communicate the information.”
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Ramsaran: Connecting one medical device modality in hospitals takes eight months of meetings
“Sitting in the hospital conversation. I've got a med device vendor, I've got IT, and then I've got me as a sales engineer at one point. Having to have, you know, eight month long meetings to connect one single modality. And that, you know, dies on the vine, ri…”