SoSMD 2011 - Workshop on Infrastructure, Tools and Technologies for Systems of Medical Devices

Medical devices historically have been monolithic units developed, validated and approved by regulatory authorities as stand-alone entities. Despite the fact that modern medical devices increasingly incorporate connectivity mechanisms that enable device data to be streamed to electronic health records and displays that aggregate data from multiple devices, connectivity is not being leveraged to allow an integrated collection of devices to work together as a single system to automate clinical work flows.

The Workshop on Infrastructure, Tools and Technologies for Systems of Medical Devices (SoSMD) provides a forum for the presentation of research and development covering aspects of medical device integration, interoperability, and coordinated systems of medical devices. The workshop aims to contribute to a community-wide effort for exploring the numerous safety and effectiveness benefits that can accrue from creating medical systems based on interoperability standards and architectures for safely integrating and controlling collections of medical devices to accomplish specific clinical tasks.