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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U.S. Army Telemedicine ATA 2008 Partnership Series lecture on Medical Device Interoperability and the Integrated Clinical Environment, April 5, 2008.

"Standards and Interoperability to Integrate the Clinical Environment for High-Acuity Care" at the National Forum on the Future of the Defense Health Information System, March 27, 2008, Washington DC.

ICE overview presented at FDA-hosted "ICE interested parties meeting", March 25, 2008

Article on "Medical Device Plug-and-Play" in Patient Safety and Quality HealthCare
January/February 2008 (670 KByte PDF file)

Massachusetts Health Data Consortium (MHDC), Clinical Networking Forum meeting November 6, 2007: "Update on the Medical Device Interoperability Program".

Slide presentation "Update on Medical Device Interoperability" from GHTF 11 (Global Harmonization Task Force), October 3, 2007.

Slide presentation "Medical Device Interoperability for Improving Safety and Efficiency: a multi-facted challenge". From AdvaMed 2007, October 1, 2007.

"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)
(With thanks to Mitre for production assistance.)

MD PnP White Paper: Advancing the Adoption of Medical Device "Plug-and-Play" Interoperability to Improve Patient Safety and Healthcare Efficiency
MD PnP Program, Updated April 2008

Once a Tech Fantasy, Plug-and-Play OR Edges Closer to Reality
Anesthesiology News, January 2007

The OR-FUSION project: Towards an open platform concept for networked medical devices
J.-Uwe Meyer and Julian Goldman. Poster presented at the Global Harmonization Task Force conference in Lubeck, Germany, June 2006. Received award for 2nd place. (www.ghtf.org)

ASA Newsletter article: Medical Device Connectivity for Improving Safety and Efficiency
ASA Newsletter May 2006 Vol 70 No 5, downloaded from
http://www.asahq.org/Newsletters/2006/05-06/goldman05_06.html

IEEE Computer "sidebar" on MD PnP program, in article "Software Engineering for Future Healthcare and Clinical Systems", by  Richard A. Schrenker
IEEE Computer April 2006, p30
Article was downloaded from http://www.computer.org/portal/cms_d...e/0406/gei.pdf

Eliciting Clinical Requirements for the Medical Device Plug-and-Play (MD PnP) Interoperatility Program
Goldman J, Whitehead S, Weininger S
From the 2006 STA Annual Meeting, published in Anesth Analg. 2006; 102;S1-54
http://www.anestech.org/media/Publications/Annual_2006/Goldman_2.pdf

BI&T* Frontlines Column: Getting Connected to Save Lives
Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology*, May/June 2005, p338

BI&T *article "Plug-and-Play" in the Operating Room of the Future
Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology* May/June 2005, p194
(The MD PnP program was described in the article as "ORF PnP", for "OR of the Future".)

AAMI News article: Plug-and-Play Connectivity Initiative Launched
AAMI News, Vol 40 No 1, p1, January 2005, p1

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*"Reprinted with permission from Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology (BI&T), a peer-reviewed journal published by the Association for Advancement of Medical Instrumentation. Visit www.aami.org to learn more about AAMI or to view BI&T's current issue."