for insights-based decision making

SDC can help drive insights-based decision making. Having medical-grade data available when and where it could have the greatest impact on patient care makes for timely decisions. Applying data analytics in a retrospective review of medical-grade data can help in identifying best clinical practices around therapies and clinical procedures. Medical-grade data could also help enable process automation between devices, as it can be exchanged efficiently, in real time.

for protection against data theft

By enabling more point-of-care devices to share a network, SDC can help protect hospital assets and patient information against misuse and theft.

Three main features of SDC contribute to data and system security:

• Integrity and confidentiality of information result from TLS protocol based mutual authentication of both client and server.
• Secure data transport is achieved by an end-to-end encryption based on a X.509 (ISO/IEC 9594-8) public key infrastructure for creation of digital certificates.
• Connectivity to identified devices on the network is managed based on whitelists for authorization.

for saving integration costs

With the reduction of device and system Integration efforts, SDC provides both clinical and administrative advantages. Integrating devices to a conforming network interface can reduce the need for expensive and elaborate custom integration projects. Avoiding custom integrations could result in a clearer risk management position. Operating SDC-capable devices and systems can also help decrease administrative complexity by reducing cost-heavy middleware solutions, proprietary drivers and the need of time-consuming, labor-intensive updating.