Editing Interoperability (section)

===Medical industry===
The need for ''[[plug-and-play]]'' interoperability&nbsp;– the ability to take a medical device out of its box and easily make it work with one's other devices&nbsp;– has attracted great attention from both healthcare providers and industry.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070912061034/http://www.cimit.org/orfuture.html CIMIT - Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology - the MD PnP Program on Medical Device Interoperability]</ref>

Increasingly, medical devices like incubators and imaging systems feature software that integrates at the point of care and with electronic systems, such as electronic medical records. At the 2016 Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) meeting, experts in the field like Angela N. Johnson with GE Healthcare and Jeff Shuren of the United States Food and Drug Administration provided practical seminars on how companies developing new medical devices, and hospitals installing them, can work more effectively to align interoperable software systems.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.assurx.com/raps-preview-fda-cdrh-director-shuren-talks-priorities/ |title= RAPS Preview: FDA CDRH Director Shuren Talks Priorities |date= September 19, 2016 |access-date= April 8, 2017}}</ref>