MD PnP: Getting connected for patient safety (TM)

Medical Device "Plug-and-Play" Interoperability Program

The MD PnP program is leading the adoption
of open
standards and technology to interconnect
medical devices for improving patient safety
and healthcare efficiency



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Joint workshop between the MD PnP Program and HCMDSS:
"Improving Patient Safety through Medical Device Interoperability and High Confidence Software"
was held June 25-27, 2007, in Cambridge, MA

Conference agenda and full streaming video of all  presentations are available at www.cimit.org/mdpnpjune07/start.htm. Conference proceedings will be published in February 2008.

Letter from  Donna-Bea Tillman, Ph.D. (Director, Office of Device Evaluation, and Larry Kessler, Sc.D.  (Director, Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories), addressing the FDA's commitment to facilitate interoperability in support of patient safety, was read at the conference by Sandy Weininger, Ph.D (OSEL). Download FDA letter.

For  program committee information, visit the workshop site hosted at Penn: http://rtg.cis.upenn.edu/hcmdss07/index.php3


We thank TATRC, NSF, and AHRQ for co-sponsoring the conference, in affiliation with Univ. of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts General Hospital, and CIMIT.

                                                                                    

                                                                                   

MD PnP Plenary Meeting History:

MD PnP Kickoff Meeting
May 24-25, 2004
Cambridge, MA

Second Plenary Meeting
November 15-16, 2004
FDA/CDRH, Rockville, MD

Third Plenary Meeting
June 2005
Cambridge, MA

Joint HCMDSS/MDPnP Workshop
June 2007
Cambridge, MA

Watch streaming video of prior presentations
http://cimit.org/orfpnpjun05/start.htm