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Change Expectations > Change Technology > Change Healthcare

About MD PnP

Improving healthcare through Integrating Clinical Environments

Making a Difference

The Massachusetts General Hospital MD PnP program was established in 2004 with a new vision to improve patient care through the development and adoption of integrated clinical environments (ICE) enabled through interoperability. We have been accelerating the development of these systems by providing interoperability building blocks (use cases, standards, a vendor-neutral virtual hospital “test bed” environment, open-source ICE platform, and regulatory science tools) and by changing clinical and market expectations of what can be achieved.

Our specific areas of focus include the application of safety engineering to platform-based medical device systems, regulatory science research, clinical scenarios development and analysis, medical device and system cybersecurity, public proof-of-concept implementations, open platform development, standards development, and development of new test methods to assess the safety and performance of these novel systems.

Our program has taken a multi-faceted approach to identifying and addressing key barriers to achieving safe interoperability, including the development and support of suitable standards, shared sample contracting language, and the elicitation, collection and modeling of clinical use cases and engineering requirements.

We invite you to learn about our new Center for Smart and Autonomous Medical Systems (SaAMS) and join the  SaAMS Collaborative Community.

What we do

We Show What is Possible and the Pathway to Get There

Enabling Innovation to Change Healthcare

Promoting innovation in patient safety and clinical care by leading the adoption of secure patient-centric integration of medical devices and IT systems in clinical environments

Collaborating with diverse stakeholders

Since the program’s inception, more than 800 clinical and engineering experts, and representatives of more than 100 companies and institutions have participated in plenary workshops/conferences, working group meetings, and focus groups to contribute to ongoing program activities and help shape the common goals.

Developing Standards

Led development within ASTM open standard for a patient-centric “Integrated Clinical Environment” (ICE) to define the conditions under which interoperability can enable device integration to create new medical device systems with greater safety and performance capabilities than any individual device – Part I of the ICE standard was published as ASTM F2761-09 (renewed 2013), and is providing a valuable framework for further defining the vision and clinical content for many other standards

Vendor-Neutral "Sandbox" Laboratory

Our lab is a non-clinical testbed that can be used with clinical testbeds to drive innovation

Demonstration Implementations

Developing and showing clinical use cases in which integrating the clinical environment will improve patient safety (e.g. x-ray/ventilator synchronization and safety interlocks for patient-controlled analgesia medication delivery), and showing these at major clinical and health IT conferences

About us

The Team

Julian Goldman, MD

Director And Founder, MD PnP Program and Center for SaAMS​​

Yi Zhang, PhD​​

Associate Program Director

Michael Jaffe, PhD​​​

Senior Program Consultant​​

Colin Gorman​

Program Manager​

Mosa Al Zowelei​​, MS

Sr. Clinical Engineer​​

David Guffrey, MS, MSM, CEH, HCISPP, ITIL

Medical Device Cybersecurity Program Manager​

Simon Kelly, BSc​

Lead Developer​

Braga Aroulmozhi​, MS

Application Developer​

Advisors

Sandy Weininger, PhD​​

Senior Biomedical Engineer, Food And Drug Administration, Center For Devices And Radiological Health, MD PnP Safety Engineering Program Advisor

Loretta Schlachta-Fairchild PhD, RN, FACHE, LTC (ret) US Army

US Army Military Health Research Advisor

Jarone Lee, MD, MPH, FCCM

Vice Chief of Critical Care for the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, Surgical Critical Care Medical Director of the Blake 12 Intensive Care Unit - Massachusetts General Hospital

Alumni

David Arney, PhD, MPH​​

Lead Engineer​​

Yuri Ostrovsky

MD PnP Alumni 2022

Sue Whitehead

Senior Program Advisor

Rick Schrenker

Senior Biomedical Engineer

Diego Alonso

Applications Developer

Andrea Lenco

Research & Grants Assistant

Dylan Bagshaw

Clinical Systems Engineer Intern

Jeff Plourde

Lead Software Developer

Jeffrey Peterson

Clinical Engineer

Harshal Sawant

Biomedical Engineer

Ken Auerbach

Database Engineer

Drayton Freeman

Research & Grants Assistant

Shoumen Palit Austin Datta, PhD

Senior Scientist

Pratyusha (Mattegunta) Pedaprolu

Clinical Engineer

About us

The Lab

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Organizational Collaborators

Timeline

May 28, 2004
Inception
MD PnP Launches

Kickoff meeting for MD PnP program, evolved out of the MGH/CIMIT OR of the Future, hosted by CIMIT in Cambridge, MA

October, 2004
Grant
First Research Grant

The program receives its first research grant, from CIMIT under a CDMRP grant

November, 2004
Plenary Meeting
Second Plenary Meeting

2nd Plenary Meeting, hosted by FDA/CDRH in Rockville, MD, where the importance of basing solutions on clinical scenarios use cases and requirements is emphasized

November, 2005
Plenary Meeting
Third Plenary Meeting

3rd Plenary Meeting hosted by CIMIT in Cambridge, MA

May, 2006
The Lab
MD PnP Lab Opens


MD PnP lab is opened at 65  Landsdowne St, Cambridge, providing a collaborative space to support projects, testing, and prototyping work

June, 2006
Award
Global Harmonization Task Force Award

Award from the Global Harmonization Task Force for poster presentation, “The OR-Fusion Project: Towards an Open Platform Concept for Networked Medical Devices”

July, 2006
Grant
TATRC/DoD Grant

First research grant from TATRC (Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center)/DoD

October, 2006
Demonstration
American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting 2006

First educational exhibit demonstrated synchronization of an x-ray ventilator to improve image quality, held at ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologists) Annual Meeting

February, 2007
Demonstration
Technology Demonstration at HIMSS

Technology demo on 1) PCA Safety and 2) bed tilt / automated blood pressure offset correction with University of NH at HIMSS07 (Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society Annual Conference)

March, 2007
Endorsement
First Medical Device Interoperability Endorsement

The first society endorsement of medical device interoperability: Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation

June, 2007
Workshop
MD PnP / HCMDSS Workshop

1st joint MD PnP Program / HCMDSS Workshop: “Improving Patient Safety through Medical Device Interoperability and High Confidence Software” held in Cambridge, MA, jointly sponsored by NSF & TATRC

October, 2007
Award
American Society of Anesthesiologists honors MD PnP Scientific Exhibit award for First Place

Scientific exhibit at ASA Annual Meeting: Improving the Safety of PCA Opioid Infusions by Integrating Patient Monitors and Infusion Pumps”

November, 2007
Award
CIMIT Edward M Kennedy award for Healthcare Innovation

MD PnP team is recognized with the CIMIT Edward M Kennedy award for Healthcare Innovation

April, 2008
Endorsement
Society endorsements of medical device interoperability

Society endorsements of medical device interoperability: Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists, Society for Technology in Anesthesia (STA), American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS)

October, 2008
Exhibition
MD FIRE Released at ASA Annual Meeting

Scientific exhibit at ASA Annual Meeting: MD PnP release of MD FIRE “Medical Device Free Interoperability Requirements for the Enterprise”: sample RFP and contracting language requirements to promote the adoption of fully interoperable medical devices and systems in support of patient safety

April, 2009
Workshop
2nd Joint Workshop on HCMDSS and MD PnP Interoperability

2nd Joint Workshop on HCMDSS and MD PnP Interoperability held in conjunction with CPS Week in San Francisco, CA

April, 2009
Demonstration
HIMSS09 Demonstration

PCA safety and medical network demo at HIMSS09

April, 2009
Demonstration
MD PnP / TATRC Demonstration

MD PnP demo in TATRC booth at American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Annual Meeting

June, 2009
Demonstration
PCA Tech Demonstration

Technology demo of PCA safety (updated) at the Advanced Medical Technology Exposition at TATRC for U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Command

June, 2009
Endorsement
AMA Medical Device Interoperability Endorsement

Endorsement of medical device interoperability: American Medical Society (includes many component societies)

December, 2009
Project
ICE Standard Part I Published by ASTM International

As a result of multi-institutional meetings convened by MD PnP, ASTM International publishes ICE Standard Part I (ASTM F2761-09), identifying key capabilities of a patient-centric integrated clinical environment

January, 2010
Workshop
MD PnP/CIMIT/Continua Health Alliance co-sponsor FDA Workshop on Medical Device Interoperability

MD PnP/CIMIT/Continua Health Alliance co-sponsor FDA Workshop on Medical Device Interoperability: Achieving Safety & Effectiveness, focusing on the regulatory and safety pathway for networked medical device systems

October, 2010
Grant
MD PnP awarded $10M NIH/NIBIB Quantum U01

MD PnP awarded $10M NIH/NIBIB Quantum U01 grant to develop a Prototype Healthcare Intranet for Improved Health Outcomes

February, 2011
Demonstration
HIMSS11 Demonstration

MD PnP presents at booths for Military Health Service and Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT at HIMSS11

April, 2011
Workshop
3rd Joint Workshop on HCMDSS and MD PnP Interoperability

3rd Joint Workshop on HCMDSS and MD PnP Interoperability held in conjunction with CPS Week in Chicago, IL

September, 2011
Open House
MD PnP Lab Open House

MD PnP Interoperability Lab Open House with public demonstrations

February, 2012
Demonstration
HIMSS12 Demonstration

Technology demo of integration of home health devices and PCA infusion pump in the ONC/SHARP booth at HIMSS12

August, 2012
Project
V 2.0 of MD FIRE released with added endorsement by VA

VA endorses MD FIRE as part of Medical Device Interoperability Program (MDIP)

August, 2012
Open House
MD PnP Interoperability Lab Open House
January, 2013
Workshop
MD PnP x DocBox Workshop

Researchers from MD PnP and DocBox, Inc. hold a workshop at the Society for Technology in Anesthesia Annual Meeting

March, 2013
Demonstration
HIMSS13 Demonstration

MD PnP collaborates with DocBox, Inc. on a technology demonstration in the ONC area of the Interoperability Showcase at HIMSS13, New Orleans

March, 2013
Event
MD PnP Allows Open Access

MD PnP begins public sharing of software and artifacts through our SourceForge project, sourceforge.net/p/mdpnp

July, 2013
Project
ICE Platform Development

Subcontract awarded from DocBox to support continued development of an ICE platform

August, 2013
Demonstration
NIH Demonstration

MD PnP team and collaborators held research demonstrations at NIH to demonstrate an open test bed for medical device interoperability being developed under the NIH/NIBIB U01 Quantum Medical Device Interoperability (QMDI) Project.

November, 2013
Hackathon
Hackathon held at MD PnP Lab, co-sponsored by INCOSE

MD PnP Lab co-sponsored "How to Hack Healthcare" with H@cking Medicine, the Harvard iLab, and the INCOSE Biomedical & Healthcare Working Group. 

December, 2013
Presentation
MD PnP Presents at the White House

MD PnP team presents a proposal at the White House to configure the Interoperability Lab to serve as a Virtual Hospital for the SmartAmerica CPS Test Bed Challenge

December, 2013
Workshop
SmartAmerica CPS Testbed Challenge

MD PnP participates in the SmartAmerica CPS Testbed Challenge, sponsored by the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows Sokwoo Rhee and Geoff Mulligan

December, 2013
Workshop
Technology demonstration at the FCC Innovation Expo
February, 2014
Demonstration
HIMSS14 Demonstration

As part of the ONC area of the HIMSS14 Interoperability Showcase, the MD PnP team holds a demonstration with technology partners DocBox and Intel, called “Real-Time Blue Button for Patients and Families.”

March, 2014
Hackaton
Hackathon held at MD PnP Lab

MD PnP Lab hosts a hackathon for the SmartAmerica Challenge group formed at the December 12, 2013 meeting at the White House, Closed-Loop Healthcare: from Home to Hospital to Home

May, 2014
Event
FDA Pre-Submission Made Publicly Available

FDA Pre-Submission supplement Q140327 for an Integrated Medical Device System is made publicly available

June, 2014
Event
MD PnP & ViTel Net Collaborate to Support SmartAmerica Challenge
June, 2014
Demonstration
Closed Loop HealthCare Demonstration

MD PnP participates in a collaborative demonstration of the Closed Loop HealthCare scenario and announces SmartAmerica MD PnP Healthcare App Challenge (SAMHAC).

August, 2014
Event
Dr. Goldman is featured as part of a Smart America series

Dr. Goldman is featured as a part of Smart America series showcasing National Science Foundation (NSF) researchers designing improved cyber-physical systems.

September, 2014
Event
MD PnP participates in Global City Teams Challenge: SmartAmerica Round Two

A NIST-launched endeavor facilitating partnerships to drive the creation of “smart cities” using Cyber-physical systems (CPS) – sometimes referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT) – to connect smart devices and systems in fundamentally new ways.

September, 2014
Grant
MD PnP receives DoD grant for OpenIce

MD PnP is awarded DoD grant to customize OpenICE interoperability platform to improve warfighter monitoring and treatment

November, 2014
Project
Ebola Response

Over a 20 day period, the MD PnP Program, with support by NIH/NIBIB, convened a group from government, academia and industry to prototype innovative approaches to improve patient care and reduce the risk of healthcare workers’ exposure to Ebola.

November, 2014
Press
Ebola work featured by the Boston Globe

Boston Globe article, Friday, November 7th, “MGH team builds remote devices that could aid Ebola treatment“

March, 2015
Event
The MD PnP Program hosts IIC Connected Care Testbed

The MD PnP Program hosted the Connected Care Testbed of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC)

March, 2016
Event
American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting 2016

“Medical Device Interoperability for Improving Safety and Efficiency” panel at American Society of Anesthesiologists annual meeting

March, 2016
Event
HIMSS16 Presentation in Singapore
May, 2017
The Lab
Construction on new MD PnP Lab begins

New 3200 sq ft MD PnP Lab breaks ground on May 24, 2017 6pm on the 5th floor of the same Mass General Brigham research building (Partners HealthCare at that time)

July, 2017
The Lab
New MD PnP lab opens on 5th floor

After 11 years in the original location at 65 Landsdowne St. Cambridge, MA, the original MD PnP lab has been relocated to a larger custom-built space on the 5th floor of the same Partners Healthcare building.

February, 2018
Contract
MGH MD PnP awarded Dept. of Homeland Security IMPACT program research contract

“Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, was awarded $950,000 to develop a medical device cybersecurity data repository. This repository, which will be developed through an effort titled “Healthcare Data Generation and Curation for Cybersecurity Analysis,”

Program Support

The work of the MD PnP Program has been supported in part by the following awards. The contents of this website are solely the responsibility of the MD PnP Program and do not necessarily represent the official views, opinions, or endorsements of the granting agencies.

NIH / NIBIB

grant number 1U01EB012470

Developing Standardized Intraoperative Process Models to Enhance Surgical Safety
Award number: 5R01HL126896-05

A Robot-Assisted Perfusion System to Improve Patient Safety in the Cardiac Operating Room
Award numbers: 1R56HL157457-01, 1R01HL157457-01A1

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Department of Defense

US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Award numbers: W81XWH-12-C-0154 and W81XWH-09-1-0705

US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity
Award number: W81XWH-09-2-0001

An Interoperable Platform for Real-Time In-Theater Caregiver Decision Support
Award number: W81XWH-17-C-0251

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National Science Foundation

grant numbers CNS-10-35715, IIS-1239242, CNS-08-34524, and CNS-08-34709

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National Institute of Standards and Technology

grant number 70NANB10H258

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The Geneva Foundation

Disaster Telemedicine Response System (DISTRESS)
Award number: MTEC-2020-538-001

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Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC)

Semiautonomous Anesthesia and Sedation Devices for Military Medical Care
Award number: W81XWH-22-9-004

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Nihon Kohden OrangeMed, Inc.

MTEC TiDE Remote Control of Mechanical Ventilators
Award number: W81XWH-15-9-001

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Advanced Technology International (ATI) / United States Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC)

TiDE Accelerating Medical Device Interoperability and Autonomy (MDIA)
Award number: 2017-605

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MITRE Corporation

Device Interoperability and Autonomy Coordinating Center (DIACC)
Award number: 1160555

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