title: Advancement of the artificial pancreas through the development of interoperability standards.
abstract: Despite advancements in the development of the artificial pancreas, barriers in the form of proprietary data and communication protocols of diabetes devices have made the integration of these components challenging. The Artificial Pancreas Standards and Technical Platform Project is an initiative funded by the JDRF Canadian Clinical Trial Network with the goal of developing device communication standards for the interoperability of diabetes devices. Stakeholders from academia, industry, regulatory agencies, and medical and patient communities have been engaged in advancing this effort. In this article, we describe this initiative along with the process involved in working with the standards organizations and stakeholders that are key to ensuring effective standards are developed and adopted. Discussion from a special session of the 12th Annual Diabetes Technology Meeting is also provided.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. peter.picton@uhn.ca
authors.forename: Peter E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Picton
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yeung
authors.forename: Nathaniel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hamming
authors.forename: Lane
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Desborough
authors.forename: Eyal
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dassau
authors.forename: Joseph A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Cafazzo
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D019058:Community Networks; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000592:standards; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000601:surgery; D013507:Endocrine Surgical Procedures / Q000592:standards*; D004867:Equipment Design / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D019397:Pancreas, Artificial / Q000592:standards*; D012106:Research; D018511:Systems Integration
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