Join Me in Boston on Sept 8th and 9th to Learn About How to Build Health IT and Med Device Gateways

I’ve been invited back to speak at the Medical Device Connectivity Conference, one of the best practical and “get the job done” kind conferences that I attend all year. This year I am Chairing the “Manufacturers” track, participating in one panel, and giving two talks – my short talk is a presentation entitled “Best Practices for Embedded Medical Device and Gateway Software Applications” and the other is a longer workshop called “How to use Open Source Software and other Low-Cost Design Techniques To Build Safety-Critical Medical Device Platforms and  Meaningful Use EHR Gateways”.

My talks, panels, and workshop will cover in depth technical topics on how to define, design, and build modern safety-critical medical device platforms and Meaningful Use compliant EHR gateways. Specifically, the workshop will start with a quick background on comparative  effectiveness research (CER) and patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) and the kinds of data the government is looking  to leverage in the future to help reduce healthcare costs and improve health outcomes. After defining why data is important, the  workshop will cover the different techniques for collecting medical data – such as directly from a patient, through healthcare  professionals, through labs, and finally through medical devices; the presentation will cover which kinds of data are easy to collect  and what are more difficult and how technical challenges to collection can be overcome...