Medical device and biomedical/clinical engineering (CE) teams are increasingly dependent on their provider’s IT infrastructure department to perform their job duties. 

Technology advances have introduced new integration opportunities like feeding live patient monitoring data into the EMR and creating multi-platform clinical communication systems. This crossover between traditionally siloed teams suggests that a defined convergence strategy would create even more visibility into outcome improvement.

• What are the risks in maintaining separate IT and CE strategies and departments?
• How can we leverage the unique skillsets of both biomedical engineers and IT engineers to improve clinical and financial outcomes?