MDIC invites FDA Associate Center Director for Digital Health, Bakul Patel, to present the agency’s current thinking on interoperability. Intersections with health care provider interests and device applications are presented by Julian M. Goldman, MD and Ed Cantwell. On January 26, 2016, FDA released draft guidance on medical device interoperability, and many medical device companies are considering how and why they might design their products to meet interoperability guidelines and standards. The draft guidance defines interoperability as “the ability of two or more products, technologies or systems to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged.”

Slides and links: Bakul Patel and Julian M. Goldman, MD