Healthcare & Medical Devices
Accelerating the development of interoperable, intelligent, and secure medical systems
The Future of Healthcare is Intelligent and Connected
Reduce Costs
Increase Precision
Satisfy Complex Requirements
The convergence of robotics, AI, data analytics and visualization technologies is paving the way for a new era in MedTech, advancing breakthrough innovations that can deliver more precise, personalized and predictive care.
Data connectivity is the foundation for the software and fundamental technologies that are transforming the industry, enabling improved patient outcomes and clinical efficiency. Today’s medical systems:
- Require complex connectivity between sensors, actuators, control systems and interfaces.
- Must satisfy simultaneous and demanding interoperability, reliability, cybersecurity, safety and performance requirements.
Instead of relying on cloud or centralized data centers, these systems must process real-time data from a number of sources closer to the data-generating applications, at the edge. Legacy device architectures are not designed with the digital communication infrastructure required to integrate new technologies. A smart, software-based solution is needed to satisfy demanding system requirements.
RTI in MedTech
Learn how RTI is leading the digital transformation in connected, intelligent MedTech.
Leading the Digital Transformation in Connected, Intelligent MedTech
Software Infrastructure
Real-time Intelligence
Connected Healthcare
Healthcare Applications
Medical Robotics
Connext provides secure, real-time, and interoperable communication between complex system components and meets the demanding needs of highly flexible, reliable, robotic-assisted surgical systems.
Connected Healthcare
Connext allows thousands of connected components across the digital health ecosystem to work as one integrated solution by sharing real-time data, securely and reliably, with no single point of failure.
Medical Imaging
Connext enables distributed and decoupled architectures that allow seamless integration and evolution of image processing, image acquisition, robotics and application subsystems, while also enabling real-time and remote device control and monitoring.
Simulink® and DDS Blockset use the QoS and real-time data from Connext to reduce design risks through in-silico modeling that allows engineers to simulate, model and deploy generated code from Simulink models. Learn more.
MedAcuity provides strategic consulting, software development and QA assurance throughout the lifecycle of complex medical device systems, with deep experience using Connext as the underlying communication middleware. Explore our joint capabilities and view the joint medical robotics demo.
Medcrypt Guardian and Overwatch work with Connext to provide a comprehensive security solution for modern MedTech systems, including secure communications and key management. Learn more.
NVIDIA Holoscan® and Connext enable product teams to build and deploy AI-enabled MedTech applications and distributed systems that leverage interoperable, low-latency and reliable data sharing for sensor and video processing. Learn more.
Qt provides a design, development and testing framework for UI software creation to speed up the development of safe, effective medical devices. Connext provides real-time data-centric communication capabilities that work with the Qt framework.
Vector CANoe simplifies software testing for distributed systems. It works with Connext to easily enable automated testing for simulation and monitoring across interfaces, devices and networks. Download the example and access the Case + Code.
Smart Machine Connectivity Framework for Healthcare
RTI Connext provides a secure, scalable, and proven connectivity framework that distributes data flow in real time to ensure system safety, security, and performance.
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Securing Connected Medical Devices
Read how zero-trust security for data in motion is supporting next-generation surgical and connected digital healthcare solutions.
Dataflow is Transforming Connected Devices
Addressing the challenges and exploring the digital software architecture needed in next-generation systems.
Check Out Who's Using RTI Connext
RTI is a trusted and strategic partner with leading MedTech companies across surgical robotics, patient monitoring, critical care, and medical imaging.
With RTI Connext and NVIDIA Holoscan, medical technology developers can accelerate their software-defined product visions by leveraging infrastructure purposely-built for healthcare applications.”
David Niewolny
Director of Business Development for Healthcare and Medical, NVIDIA
RTI Connext enables advanced controls and visualization in the surgical field, enriching the surgeon’s experience as well as patient care.”
Chauncey Graetzel
VP of R&D, Levita Magnetics
[Our] knee replacement system, with RTI's underlying technology, [allows] more stable, better-fitting knee replacement with fewer complications in a fraction of the time it takes today.”
Kamran Shamaei
CTO, Monogram Orthopaedics
Success Stories
Hospital Data Integration
Flexible, Intelligent Clinical Decision Support Systems
Connext helps hospital networks meet their data challenges involving thousands of patients (in motion), hundreds of thousands of devices, diverse link protocols, 100% uptime, security and real-time waveforms.
Low-Latency Communications for Telesurgery
Monogram Orthopaedics Remote Surgery
Connext provides reliable and low-latency data transfer across networks enabling the world's first fully remote total knee arthroplasty (TKA) procedure from over 2,000 miles away.
Diagnostic and Therapy Systems
Mevion Medical Systems High-Quality Proton Therapy with a Small Footprint
Imaging systems require massive data flows and fast performance. DDS controls and optimizes network use to handle megabytes of load without losing data.
Minimally Invasive Surgery Innovation
MARS Surgical Robotics System
Connext enables flexible and scalable innovation for Levita’s MARS Surgical Platform: the first FDA-approved surgical robotic platform, revolutionizing surgery with magnets and machines.
Hospital Patient Safety
DocBox Integrates Clinical Decision Systems
RTI Connext ties together devices, services, and displays in real time. "RTI Connext met all our needs – whether we're handling 12 patients, or 200." DocBox Founder, Tracy Rausch
Surgical Systems
DLR Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery Systems
The Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery (MIRS) system at DLR coordinates three robots to perform delicate heart surgery. The system closes a distributed loop between the robots and the remote surgeon's control at 3kHz.
EMS Device Integration Platform
World's Largest EMS Equipment Provider
Provides emergency response equipment to 60% of the world's emergency vehicles. RTI will be used in their entire product line emergency response equipment…for the next 20 years.
Developing Next-Generation MedTech Systems with RTI Connext
RTI’s MedTech Reference Architecture provides everything you need to get started with RTI Connext: a flexible data model, Quality of Service, straightforward documentation, DDS entities, and security artifacts. Comprehensive demos illustrate the value that Connext provides, highlighting the ability to reuse many of the components for your own development efforts.