From signal to care: session recordings and two white papers

Connected medical devices: how can we turn available data into useful information, a decision and a benefit for the patient? On 28 September 2026, at PariSanté Campus, this question guided Snitem’s 2nd Day on Connected and Interoperable Medical Devices, which I had the pleasure of preparing and moderating. Industry representatives, healthcare professionals, biomedical engineers, chief information officers (DSI) and digital health experts shared their experiences around a common theme: “Data in the service of care”. The recordings are now available. To extend the discussion beyond the day, I have also produced two complementary publications: a collection of my articles and a structured, expert white paper with supporting sources.

A day to follow the journey of data

The programme was organised around four acts: generating, ensuring reliability and protecting, circulating, and creating value. This progression allows us to follow a question through to the end. What data should we collect? How can we preserve its meaning? How can we send it to the right recipient? And how can we check that it actually helps improve care?

Generating data: start with the decision to improve

Value begins with a specific clinical or organisational question. A measurement must be suited to its purpose: monitoring, detecting, tracking a change, adjusting care or contributing to research. Its accuracy, frequency and time to availability become meaningful in relation to that purpose. The starting point is therefore concrete: what decision should this data enable, for whom and at what moment?

Ensuring reliability and protecting: preserving understandable information

Information must retain its identity, provenance, units, timestamp and the context in which it was acquired. Data can circulate correctly at a technical level while losing some of its clinical meaning. The existence of a FHIR API alone does not guarantee that the information received will be correctly interpreted and usable. Quality, interoperability and security come together here: making information available whose meaning and limitations the recipient understands.

Circulating data: organising continuity with the patient

Across hospitals, community care and the home, transmitting information is one step. We also need to organise how it is received and handled. Who reads it? Who acts? Within what timeframe? Who takes over when someone is absent? How do we know an alert has been acted on? These questions put team organisation back at the heart of continuity of care. They make visible the work needed to turn a stream of data into a useful response.

Creating value: documenting the service delivered

Data from medical devices opens up possibilities for research, artificial intelligence and changes in practice. Value is measured, however, in the results achieved: a better-informed decision, an improved care pathway, a manageable workload or a documented benefit for the patient. Assessing this value means specifying the expected outcome, the method chosen and the conditions in which it can be observed.

Three resources to take the discussion further

🎬 The recordings: revisit the discussions in context

The videos allow you to revisit the presentations, demonstrations and accounts of experience shared during the day. 👉 Access the recordings: https://www.snitem.fr/actualites-et-evenements/evenements-du-dm/2%e1%b5%89-journee-du-dispositif-medical-connecte-et-interoperable/

📖 The collection: follow the “From Signal to Care” series — find my LinkedIn posts

This first document brings together the initial announcement and the four episodes published in IAtus × IAtrogénique: • The conditions for value. • The conditions for trust. • The conditions for continuity. • The conditions for impact. It retraces the day’s editorial thread, with its examples, visuals and lessons, in chronological order and in context. 👉 Read the collection: https://pharmageek.aflip.in/4a486e5412.html

📘 The expert white paper: moving from reflection to action

The second document develops a cross-cutting analysis, enriched by external sources. It takes a deeper look at data quality, interoperability, continuity of care pathways, building evidence, governance and the conditions for deployment. Practical frameworks and a roadmap for organisational alignment help turn these questions into teamwork. 👉 Read the expert white paper: https://pharmageek.aflip.in/a889a18de2.html

Preparing, moderating, taking the discussion further

My work on this day began with preparing the discussions and continued on stage, then in the articles and these two publications. Moderating builds a common thread between different areas of expertise. It makes room for experience, makes disagreements understandable and helps the audience connect each contribution to the challenges of their own projects. The editorial work that follows then allows those lessons to be shared beyond the participants and gives them a longer life. Thank you to William Rolland, Marine Legendre and the SNITEM teams for their trust. Thank you also to the speakers for the time they devoted to preparation, the precision of their contributions and their openness in discussion. In your organisation, which stage needs the most attention today: generating data, ensuring its reliability, circulating it or demonstrating its value? And if you would like to build an event that combines editorial preparation, moderation and further content, let’s talk here on LinkedIn or at lionel@reichardtonline.com. Lionel Reichardt | Pharmageek