What involvement does Emergin have in driving standards for alarm management and event notification in healthcare?
Emergin is working with certain reporting organizations that, for the first time, are creating alarm and event management as a category. Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (www.ihe.net) has created a Patient Care Devices (PCD) subcommittee with which Emergin is involved. The IHE is working with Emergin to drive some standards around how medical devices interface alarms and events. IHE started on cardiology, radiology and lab, and is now expanding into the medical device domain – which we consider our core competence. Because we’ve integrated a lot of the medical equipment, we’ve created a standard integrated profile that we make publicly available. Some customers are including those specs in their request for proposals (RFPs). How does the incorporation of digital device information fit in with Emergin’s focus on alarms and events? Most of the technologies are used to import information from medical equipment into electronic medical records for charting. Emergin’s value proposition
