June 2009 - J. Goldman received AAMI Foundation/ Institute for Technology in Health Care
Clinical Application
Award for work on medical device interoperability.
Oct 2008 - Scientific Exhibit at the American Society of Anesthesiologists annual meeting on
"MD FIRE" - Medical Device Free Interoperability Requirements for the Enterprise.
Through an MD PnP Program collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare, Kaiser Permanente,and Johns Hopkins Medicine, we developed sample medical device purchasing requirements for interoperability to accelerate the availability and adoption of interoperable equipment.
Download the
ASA Scientific Exhibit handout (2-page PDF).
More information about
MD FIRE and the complete document is available from this page.
September 2009 - ASTM
Standardization News article on the new ASTM F2761 standard on the "Patient-centric Integrated Clinical Environment", or ICE
November 13, 2007 - MD PnP team is recognized with the
CIMIT Edward M Kennedy award for Healthcare Innovation. Sen. Kennedy wrote "I congratulate Dr. Goldman and the entire Plug-and-Play team for their outstanding contributions to operating room safety, and for providing another example of the importance of the partnership approach to research and development that CIMIT collaborators have pioneered".
Press Release
October 2007 - American Society of Anesthesiologists honors MD PnP Scientific Exhibit award for First Place.
Exhibit Title: Improving the Safety of PCA Opioid Infusions by Integrating Patient Monitors and Infusion Pumps
Presenters: Julian M Goldman, MD, Michael W Jopling, MD, Frank J Overdyk, MD, Sandy Weininger, PhD, David Arney, PhD, Insup Lee, PhD, Susan F Whitehead, BS, Philippe-Antoine Cortes, ME, Shankar Krishnan, PhD
In addition to a demonstration, four posters were displayed.
See the story in
ASA Newsletter V72 January 2008
Download
poster 1,
poster 2,
poster 3, and
poster 4.
In the ASA exhibit we demonstrated that medical device interoperability standards and technology could be used to integrate monitors and PCA pumps to reduce the risks of respiratory complications from postoperative opioids. The prototype system used SpO2 and respiratory rate to detect the onset of respiratory depression, automatically stop the PCA basal infusion, lock out bolus administration, and activate the nurse call system. This approach supports the APSF recommendations to reduce the risks of respiratory complications from postoperative opioids (as described in the Winter 2006/2007 APSF Newsletter).
The exhibit also emphasized that the use of more that one type of monitor (“orthogonal measurements”) to assess respiratory function (for example, pulse oximetry and capnography), may increase the reliability of problem detection (achieving high sensitivity) while reducing false alarms (achieving high specificity).
May 3, 2007
NetworkWorld - Data integration key to better medical care, by Jon Brodkin
Coverage of presentations at the British Conulate-General, Cambridge, MA
February 2007 - HIMSS MD PnP Exhibit in University Row. Clinical use Case demonstrations by our lab and by University of New Hampshire. See
handout.
Also, see Dr. Goldman's lecture slides from the
View from the Top lecture about the OR of the Future.
- Session overview and introductions (Julian Goldman, MD/MD PnP Program)
- Welcome: Committee on EMIT focus on interoperability (Keith Ruskin, MD/Chair ASA Committee on Electronic Media and IT))
- Can interoperability support improvements in patient safety? (Jeff Cooper, PhD/Co-Founder Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation)
- Recent advances in achieving interoperability: the MD PnP Program (Goldman)
- What Interoperability Means for Anesthesiologists: A view from The Hill (Bill Horton, MD/ASA Congressional Fellow)
- What drives the adoption of New Technology? (Donald Martin, MD/Chair ASA Committee on Equipment and Facilities)
- Using Interoperability to Support Clinical Requirements (Sandy Weininger, PhD/FDA)
Full session details can be downloaded here.October 2006 -
American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting 2006
Scientific Exhibit #S01: Medical Device Plug-and-Play Connectivity
We will convey the safety improvements that are achievable through medical device interoperability. We will demonstrate one of the clinical scenarios (or “use cases”) collected at the Society for Technology in Anesthesia 2005 meeting session on interoperability: The connection of a portable x-ray machine and anesthesia ventilator to synchronize the x-ray exposure with the desired phase of respiration. In our demo, a simulated x-ray will trigger a camera to capture an image of a mechanical lung at the desired phase of respiration.
Posters will lead participants through the process of turning clinical scenarios into technical solutions, and review the history of medical device interoperability.
ASA 2006 booklet describing the content of the ASA exhibit,
including reproductions of all posters may be downloaded in 3 PDF files:
MDPnP Booklet February 2007 p1-21.pdf (11 Mgb)
MDPnP Booklet February 2007 p22.pdf (8 Mgb)
MDPnP Booklet February 2007 p23-29.pdf (8 Mgb)
July 2006 - 10th GHTF, Lubeck, Germany. Poster entitled "The OR-FUSION project: Towards an open platform concept for networked medical devices" (J.-Uwe Meyer and Julian Goldman), received an award for 2nd place at the Global Harmonization Task Force conference (
http://ghtf.org/).
View PosterJune 2006 - Japanese Society of Anesthesiologsists, Kobe, Japan. Lecture on "Medical Device Interoperability Standardization for Safety and Efficiency" and requirements-gathering session from JSA members.
May 24, 2006 - The MD PnP Lab is now open! See the
"Lab" page for more info.
