Jeff McGeath

Jeff McGeath is the VP of Patient Care Device Integration for Iatric Systems and is the IHE Patient Care Device Integration Committee co-chair. He can be reached at Jeff.McGeath@iatric.com.

Medical device integration with EHRs: The landscape and outlook for the future

During the annual IHE Connectathon event in January 2014, I had the opportunity to visit many old friends across the medical device community and to share our experiences with ongoing challenges and changes. A common thread among these colleagues was the increasing demand from the healthcare community to integrate data into their electronic health records (EHRs). Growing demand for integration is driving changes in what our medical device products – both software and hardware – must do to meet community needs. Here are the key trends, as well as the players and device types most affected.