CareFusion, Edwards Lifesciences, Medtronic Refuse to Share Data, Says Masimo CEO

For the past three or four years, Masimo CEO Joe Kiani has been hoping to get medtech companies to share data to achieve a simple goal of his Patient Safety Movement: reduce death from medical errors worldwide.

“I decided maybe I have a responsibility to do something about it,” Kiani recalled in an interview with MD+DI, at the annual conference of AdvaMed in San Diego recently.

The concept is simple enough: hospitals make a specific commitment to reduce medication errors and estimate the number of lives that would be saved as a result.

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