Edited sentence: As of yet, however, it has chosen to set its own standards for interoperability and does not endorse any general standards.Clinical outcomes may be greatly improved if  technology were easier to use and more integrated.From a clinical perspective, KP wants medical devices that function well in a hospital setting.From a technical perspective, KP wants products that are easy to install and easy to connect to the rest of its system.Hiring a large number of technical experts is very expensive, so KP would like to employ a central team that could efficiently serve all its hospitals.KP also wants products that can be monitored and maintained remotely.KP has great leverage in the industry for biomedical devices because it buys in such bulk.KP is also seeking systems with better patient-ID binding and with greater data recoverability in the event of a system failure.KP simply requires that its vendors prove that their products will work with KP’s in-house system.One change that KP desires is a single sign-on system that would prevent doctors from having to waste time logging on to multiple machines separately.The company feels that general standards for interoperability are still immature