MD-Adapt: A Proposed Architecture for Open-Source Medical Device Interoperability

Abstract

MD-adapt is an architecture for shamble common interfaces for medical devices in support of the goals of MDPnP. This paper proposes an architecture for enabling an open source, community-based effort to create a pool of reusable device interface implementations. The MD-adapt architecture consists of a standardized API (application programming interface) and a device metadata format, and supports building modular and portable medical device communications software adapters that run on a variety of relevant OS platforms.