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JHU / APL MDIRA Project 

The MDIRA project home page has a REALLY COOL VIDEO, provides links to download the latest specification and related documentation, and gives a project overview:

The Defense Health Agency funded the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command to research technical architectures to support autonomous medical systems for prolonged care in austere environments and hospitals of the future.

The result is MDIRA, the Medical Device Interoperability Reference Architecture, a technical framework intended to guide stakeholder organizations and industry in developing interoperable, safe, and secure medical device systems that will deliver advanced and autonomous medical care. The MDIRA research team is engaging stakeholders from Government, industry, academia, and civilian healthcare who are on the cutting edge of integrated clinical environments, closed-loop care systems, medical device and cybersecurity standards, and regulatory clearance and approvals for patient safety.

The MDIRA Specification Document Version 1.0 provides requirements and implementation guidance for MDIRA-compliant systems focused on trauma and critical care in austere environments. MDIRA will evolve incrementally based on on-going research and collaboration. 

Here is the draft that was included in an update to the HL7 Devices Working Group meetings in 2020 February:

Additional overview information is available in briefing documents such as the following MDIRA project report out at the 2019 September HL7 Devices Working Group meetings:

Reference Architecture & ICE Conceptual Model

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NITRD MDI "Listening Session" Narrative

To help advance this area of research, on 2019-JUL-17 the U.S. Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program conducted a "listening session" workshop, organized by the Health Information Technology Research and Development (HITRD) Interagency Working Group (IWG) and in collaboration with the U.S. FDA on the topic:  Interoperability of Medical Devices, Data, and Platforms to Enhance Patient Care.

As part of the workshop, a narrative was published for public comment, the comments reviewed, and then "listening session" presentations and themes   This NITRD workshop narrative was subsequently used as a starting point for the MDIRA / ICE narrative and use case analysis below.

Note that the workshop also included a briefing on medical autonomous systems that includes the MDIRA project:

Source:  NITRD Workshop materials

MDIRA Use Case Analyses 

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MDIRA / ICE over SDPi+FHIR 

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