How Can Your Data-Generating Devices Enable Better Healthcare?

One of the biggest thorns in the side of healthcare organizations—from large hospitals to small, privately owned practices—is the management of paperwork and data. Tight control and organization of medical data—whether digital or on paper—is required by FDA and various compliance regulations including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Medical facilities must ensure that records are kept up to date, accessible, and secure in order to meet those government requirements, and medical device manufacturers must keep up with regulatory demands as well. But organized paperwork and data is not just important to satisfy regulatory bodies. Tidy medical records make for better care quality, and they enable continuity of care—an element that can make or break a patient experience. Within paperwork and data is a vast array of documents including: Hand-written notes taken by current and past healthcare practitioners. Lab reports. Insurance forms. Death certificates. And more. Medical devices and systems are the types of technology that are creating this documentation, so a challenge exists for the medical device manufacturer to create products that help healthcare organizations keep such documentation organized. However, there is software that medical device manufacturers can employ to aid healthcare organizations in managing such data and staying compliant. Read on to learn more...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: Digital Health Source Type: news