First Products Future Proofing Workflows As Interoperability Advances in Healthcare

Advancing interoperability is a key theme at the 2025 HIMSS Conference, embracing the future of healthcare. HIMSS defines interoperability as the “seamless health information exchange across systems.” Healthcare IT managers and engineers alike are gearing up to learn how to bring their interconnected medical devices and healthcare systems into the operability framework. This “network” includes diverse information systems, devices, and applications or systems across and between the healthcare entities that collect, transfer, share, and analyze healthcare data like EHRs, test results, and insurance claims. 

Interoperability initiatives are rapidly setting a pace for organizations to get their operations in perfect alignment where interoperability integrates fully into the workflows and processes of pertinent health organizations. That’s where First Products comes into the discussion. In a sense, helping organizations “future proof” their workflows, First’s flexible and adaptable medical carts and mounts offer a modular architecture that can be customized as future technology advances without disrupting care delivery.  

What is Interoperability?

If considered visually, the concept of interoperability may resemble a wheel (Source: pwc.com), with a data source at the center as the cog and the various points of care, such as pharmacies, labs, primary care, public health, long-term care, specialists, and hospitals, as the spokes, I.e., wherever patients touch these entities. Their records, test results, and biofeedback flow to the center through different devices, applications, or information systems and back out to other entities as needed. This timely and seamless exchange of information aims to improve patient care by increasing efficiency, positively impacting cost reductions, and optimizing patient health.

Care points, like pharmacies, labs, or hospitals, have varied workflow needs geared to the care they give and the devices and equipment required. First Product mobile carts and workstations, customized to care delivery throughout a patient’s medical journey, create this adaptable and flexible platform for advancing technologies. 

Key Use Cases in Interoperability

Two critical use cases for interoperability are acute care and EHR management. Take an acute care example of a patient arriving in his local emergency room with shortness of breath and elevated heart rate. Attending physicians, with instant access to medical records through interoperable systems, see that she has had anaphylaxis reactions in the past to seafood. With this information, the care team can quickly review medications, recent test results, or past incidents to begin treatment and help the patient recover. 

With access to data systems mounted to a medical cart in an ER setting, or in other mounted applications, doctors and clinicians interact with a patient’s history in a comfortable, ergonomic setting that moves and flexes with them. In addition to making quicker, more informed decisions, this access may help reduce medical errors like administering the wrong medications or doses, can improve care coordination and quality, and get patients more engaged in their care decisions. 

Create the Perfect Fit with First Product 

First Product specializes in crafting custom mobile carts that fit unique needs, with a process that is more straightforward than clients may think: 

• Step 1: Consultation and needs analysis with our experienced team
• Step 2: Design and value engineering
• Step 3: The Perfect Fit Solution is created, piloted, and tested
• Step 4: Full service delivery and roll out

Everything is handled in our U.S.-based manufacturing operations. Our customization process is highly responsive and cost-effective, delivering high-quality production throughout the process. Explore our products or browse the product gallery of custom client projects to learn more. We are more than a medical cart supplier; we want to be your trusted partner. If you’re ready to start a project, we are, too. Contact us today for a complimentary consultation or product demo, to see how we can bring your ideas to life. 

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Advancing Interoperability

Efficient patient care and seamless workflows start with the application of the data at the point of care, helping reinforce the interoperability mission. If this happens on the right mobile cart or workstation built for you, with you? Even better! Accurate, efficient, and comfortable care administration helps ensure that the data flowing through this data network is precise and ready for the next stage of the patient’s health journey.  

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Let’s continue the conversation at HIMSS, booth #6232. We hope to see you there!