Innovationen für die Medizin

IT-Networks Incorporating Medical Devices
Trends, standards and procedures

This course is one out of seven continuing education courses at the World Congress 2009 organised by the VDE|DGBMT and the Forum MedTechPharma.

We look forward to seeing you in Munich.

Link to the registration

Link to the course overview

Program "From Science to Innovation" (pdf)

Course Instructors

Jörg A. K. Ohnsorge, PD Dr. med.

• Deputy director of the University Hospital Aachen (UKA)
• Medical specialist for orthopaedics and trauma surgery
• Medical activities in different hospitals, national and international
• Studies, graduation and specialist training of human medicine in Aachen, London and Toulouse

Björn Bergh, Prof. Dr. med.

• Professor for Medical Information Systems and Chairman of the Centre of Information Technology and Medical Engineering at the University Hospital and Medical Faculty Heidelberg
• Consultant editor of "Hospital IT Europe", active in 7 professional/scientific societies and member of various boards (e.g. HIMSS Europe, ConHIT, TeleMed, MEDICA media, Open eHealth Foundation)
• Study of medicine and mathematics, education in diagnostic radiology at the Charité University Hospital Berlin

Thomas Norgall

• Senior Engineer since 2001 at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Erlangen
• Co-ordinator of the Fraunhofer activities "Personal Health"
• Management functions in numerous national, European and international standardization committees and activities in clinical laboratory data processing as well as automation and communications technology
• Studies in electrical engineering, materials science and informatics

Training Material

Medical devices are often operated today as stand-alone devices. By integrating these devices into systems and networking them into a hospital's IT network with a "plug and play" solution, numerous new applications are possible. On the basis of the upcoming norm "IEC 80001: Risk management of networked medical systems," the course describes the current situation in everyday medical practice. Plug and play concepts are needed in order to improve processes and better utilize the full potential of the devices. "Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs)" are currently being developed as the first approach toward providing a solution.

The course participants initially learn about the current situation and possibilities for networking medical devices and IT networks. The second part of the course describes the vision of a plug and play solution with its requisite interfaces and agreements. The course concludes with a discussion of how this vision can be realized and who should work on it.

Participants

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