Medtronic Signs the “Open Data Pledge” to Share Data to Improve Patient Safety | Business Wire

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Summary:

"The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) today announced that Medtronic, a leading global healthcare solutions company, has joined a growing list of healthcare technology companies that have signed the Patient Safety Movement’s public pledge to share their data to promote patient safety. In addition, Medtronic committed $5 Million to the PSMF over a five-year period, and Medtronic’s CEO, Omar Ishrak, will join Patient Safety Movement’s Board of Directors. By signing this Open Data Pledge, Medtronic pledges to allow access to all available acute clinical data generated by their products used in hospitals and in outpatient practice settings to interested parties that want to use them to help minimize preventable patient complications and death. When companies share the data of their products, it provides researchers and entrepreneurs with critical information to develop and accelerate solutions to improve patient care. This information includes predictive algorithms that can notify clinicians and patients of possible dangerous trends – allowing for intervention earlier....Patient Safety Movement is a commitment-based organization that asks hospitals to implement processes to avoid human errors becoming fatal and asks healthcare technology companies to share the data their products are purchased for, without disclosing their proprietary algorithms or protected data and subject to applicable patient privacy laws...."

Link:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161102006465/en/Medtronic-Signs-%E2%80%9COpen-Data-Pledge%E2%80%9D-Share-Data

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oa.new oa.data oa.signatures oa.pledges oa.medicine oa.privacy

Date tagged:

11/03/2016, 13:23

Date published:

11/03/2016, 09:23