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Medical device manufacturers' organizations reinforce isolated solutions

January 15, 2009

Analysis of:Medical devices lag in iPod age | www.boston.com

Medical device interoperability is improving under such efforts as the IHE initiative, but structural issues remain in the way of more complete integration. Comparison to the iPod is interesting in that consumer electronics are far more targeted to the consumer holistically than the medical industry with its myriad divides between stakeholders and within stakeholders. Manufacturers organize as a mirror of their customers, which tend to be fragmented and isolated with respect to the overall health outcome of the patient. Rather than optimizing designs based on the overall health outcome, devices are optimized to maximize the business case for purchasers of that device by itself. Manufacturers will reorganize to meet the needs of integration as the customers place a value on it. However, the vendors will pace their development of higher integration with the pace at which the customer community restructures itself so as to place a value on it, no faster.

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