MEDICAL DEVICE INTEROPERABILITY

Have you ever wondered why the majority of modern and expensive medical devices in the intensive care unit (ICU) and in the operating room (OR) still have an RS232 interface as their "open interface"? Why has this in 30 years not changed to anything modern? What would be anything modern? Why is there no accepted standard for such an important thing like interoperability between medical devices in the ICU and the OR? How could this be overcome and how could the ICU become more human? What would be the benefit of functional medical device interoperability? The answers and a concept on how to overcome the current innovation barrieres can be found in my book "Medical Device Interoperability: Disruptive Innovation for the ICU".