The PoCSpec project team has presented the status of the project on 25 September 2019 during a separate session at BMT 2019 in Frankfurt/Main.
After a brief overview lecture by project coordinator Dr. Marco Eichelberg (OFFIS), Björn Andersen (IMI, University of Lübeck) reported about “ISO / IEEE 11073 Service-oriented Device Connectivity (SDC) for Point-of-Care Medical Device Interoperability”. Jan Schlamelcher (OFFIS) presented “Methods and Tools for Developing SDC Device Specializations”. Anton Keller (AESCULAP), Head of DKE Working Group UK 812.2 “Electromedical Equipment – Therapy, Surgery”, reported on the prospects of “Cross-Vendor Medical Device Interoperability for High Frequency Surgical Systems” and Stefan Klöckner (Olympus Winter & Ibe), head of DKE Working Group UK 812.4 “Electromedical Equipment – Electrooptical Devices” concluded the session with a lecture on “Cross-Vendor Medical Device Interoperability for Endoscopic Camera / Visual Systems”.
BMT 2019 (“Biomedical Technology”) was organised as a three-country conference D-A-CH by the German Society for Biomedical Engineering (DGBMT) within VDE, the Austrian Society for Biomedical Engineering (ÖGBMT) and the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering (SGBT).