HRS White Paper on Interoperability of Data from Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices

May 8, 2019—This document provides a brief overview of U.S. federal initiatives to promote interoperability of data, the requirements needed to communicate data between information technology systems in a way that permits the sending and receiving systems to understand and process the data, a summary of the work of HRS to date, and finally strategies for clinicians seeking an environment in which they can manage their cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) patient data in a single IT system.