That medical devices and other healthcare IT tools can't efficiently communicate machine-to-machine is an ethical issue and a safety dilemma, according to the Center for Medical Interoperability, adding "This lack of plug-and-play interoperability can compromise patient safety, impact care quality and outcomes, contribute to clinician fatigue and waste billions of dollars each year". Along with the roadmap, ONC also released a draft of 2015 Interoperability Standards Advisory, which "represents ONC's assessment of the best available standards and implementation specifications for clinical health information interoperability as of December 2014. The report also highlights that while there are many different types of health IT, they all share one thing in common:
That medical devices and other healthcare IT tools can't efficiently communicate machine-to-machine is an ethical issue and a safety dilemma, according to the Center for Medical Interoperability, adding "This lack of plug-and-play interoperability can compromise patient safety, impact care quality and outcomes, contribute to clinician fatigue and waste billions of dollars each year". The report also highlights that while there are many different types of health IT, they all share one thing in common: