Our mission is to develop products that help you, the clinician, by providing you with up to the second information about your patients.

Many products claim to do this but the typical result is that a new system is simply added to what currently exists, or a completely different system replaces the old system.  Yet another system needs to be learned by care-givers.

Machines, particularly computers, are good at doing repetitive or predictable tasks.  Why should a person have to do what a computer can do?  Our goal is to reduce the amount of work a clinician is faced with when providing patient care so focus can be placed where it should be ... on the patient

IEEE 1073

So many solutions have been promoted as the new way to get all your devices to communicate.  In most cases, the claims are simply untrue.

An open standard must be developed and supported that is not specific to any one vendor.  The IEEE 1073 may be the standard that is able to deliver.

The MIB, a short name for the IEEE 1073, was initially started in the mid-1980's.  It has seen a number of fits and starts along they way.  So what's different now?

Effectiveness

The standard is now being developed by members of the Medical Device Communications Industry Group (MDCIG).  The MDCIG is comprised of a number of major medical device vendors that have agreed to work toward the development of the MIB standards.

With a new emphasis on providing substance over hype, the group is balloting an unprecedented number of documents that comprise the MIB standards.  The group is committed to demonstrating prototypes in various forums to show this vital technology in operation.

The development of this standard is an international effort.

The MIB standards are being developed as International  standards.  This will help promote global acceptance of the MIB standards.

Learn more about the IEEE 1073 standards at:

MDCIG.org