AAMI Partners with Edaptive Technologies for new Standards Platform

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AAMI StMP, a new standards development platform for the medical device space, has officially launched. This wraps up a phased and prompt rollout, which started in late 2023. StMP has already received strong positive feedback from various AAMI working group members. Now, in partnership with the platform’s developer Edaptive Technologies, AAMI prepares to build upon this initial success by anticipating and addressing challenges specific to the standards development space.

“Ironically, there is no standard workflow that is followed by standards developing organizations (SDOs) around the world, so we’re always learning to cater to the specific needs of standards developers,” said Vinay Gupta, CEO of Edaptive Technologies. “We have developed a feature-rich and customizable platform to cater to the various needs and our goal for the AAMI user groups is to consolidate these features and evolve our platform to provide nearly consistent workflow among SDOs that will further help end users (including administrators, staff, editors and members) and future data interoperability.”

AAMI StMP was developed and implemented with an eye toward the features that AAMI members desired to continue their work, improve existing workflows, and deal with issues related to international harmonization. By addressing these concerns, the new platform ensures that the wide gamut of needs from AAMI’s 150 plus active working groups and committees can be met, providing solid operational footing for years to come. AAMI’s wide scope of user perspectives will also be valuable to Gupta and his team, as they work to future-proof their platform design. As such, AAMI and Edaptive are offering opportunities for working groups to provide feedback throughout 2024. 

Edaptive Technologies is a provider of white label standards development and subscription platforms, XML data conversion and other custom services that are focused on SDOs like AAMI. Prior to the rollout of StMP, AAMI’s committees and working groups lacked the flexibility to allow for a custom workflow at the user level. With AAMI StMP, users can continue with a familiar, older SDO workflow, while also providing XML-based features to easily transition to more modern and innovative processes. The platform is also designed to read forms that follow the templates of major international standards bodies, such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), which will help AAMI pursue its mission of harmonization and cooperation with international standards development bodies. Edaptive made the transition from the prior system and integration with existing customer management system extremely easy.

"AAMI’s partnership and user collaboration is key to Edaptive’s vision of  the standards development platform being used by majority of the SDO’s,” Gupta added. “Edaptive excels at enabling enhanced functionality for our clients while allowing them to leverage their existing, familiar workflows.” 

Reacting to the launch of AAMI StMP, Matt Williams, vice president of Standards at AAMI concluded that, “StMP is not just a platform, but a finely honed tool designed to optimize workflow and supercharge efficiency. The entire AAMI Standards Team has been hard at work preparing for this transition and we are looking forward to this new chapter.”