Medical Devicel Interoperability is Achieved for Sherman Hospital

Sherman Hospital in Elgin, IL, aimed to integratethe appropriate device driver from Capsule's Web
patient monitoring devices with its electronic healthsite to software from the vendor called Data Captor.
records system but was hampered by some of theThe software captures the data flowing out of
old devices that could not cope with this newmedical devices, and then one can filter out
technology. Instead of buying new devices, theextraneous data he doesn't want to stream into the
hospital turned to Andover, MA - based CapsuleEHR, such as the version of software running on the
Technologie, a vendor that has built an interfacemedical device.
library for more than 415 medical devices. Capsule'sOnce the device interfaces and the EHR are
bedside medical device interfaces rely on deviceconfigured properly, the benefits of having a direct
drivers that are specific to each vendor, type anddata stream come almost immediately. The entire
version of medical device. Installing Capsule'ssite license for Capsule was less than half what
technology into the clinical setting is very easy and itSherman Hospital's primary device vendor, Waukesha,
took just 1 week to complete the transition.Wis.-based GE Healthcare, wanted for new devices.
Although the technology was installed quickly, it tookAbout 70% of the hospital's devices come from GE.
the hospital the rest of the year to fully configureWith device data now streaming into the EHR,
and test the connections to the EHR from Kansasphysicians don't have to go to specific units, such as
City, Mo.-based Cerner Corp. That's because the tasksurgery and intensive care, to leaf through papers
of making sure that specific vital signs data goes intoand find the most recent vital signs. Once it's in the
the proper data field in the EHR is laborious. ToEHR, physicians can see it from anywhere.
interface a monitoring device, one has to download