Ramsaran: Proprietary vendor connections keep medical device interoperability fragmented
Justin Ramsaran · Connecting Healthcare: Solving Medical Device Fragmentation with R Group · Jun 24, 2025 · at 2:55
Justin Ramsaran, CEO of R Group and VP of Digital Health Solutions at Fukuda Denshi, discusses why medical devices create isolated data silos in hospitals.
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“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 specific medical device manufacturers connectivity application, and it doesn't talk to the monitoring application.”
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