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About MD PnP
Improving healthcare through Integrating Clinical Environments
Making a Difference
The MD PnP program, established in 2004, has become a recognized leader in improving healthcare through the development and adoption of integrated clinical environments (ICE). We have been working to accelerate the adoption of medical device interoperability by providing interoperability building blocks (use cases, standards, a vendor-neutral lab “test bed” environment, and open-source 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 integrated clinical environments, regulatory pathway leadership, clinical scenarios elicitation and analysis, demonstration implementations, open platform development, and standards development and standards-driven testing, verification, and validation. MD PnP has taken a multi-faceted approach to identifying and addressing key barriers to achieving safe interoperability, including the development and support of suitable open standards, shared sample contracting language, and the elicitation, collection and modeling of clinical use cases and engineering requirements for the ICE platform-based “ecosystem”.
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
The MD PnP program leadership and “geographically dispersed team” includes not only members of Mass General Brigham clinical, information services, and clinical engineering staff but also colleagues from other healthcare systems, marketing and engineering staff from medical device manufacturers; FDA and NIST staff involved in the regulation and testing of software-based medical devices; marketing and engineering staff representing manufacturers of information technology-based hardware and software; and members of academic and research communities and clinical and engineering societies.
Julian M. Goldman, MD, FASA
Director and Founder, MD PnP Program
David Arney, PhD, MPH
Lead Engineer
Yi Zhang, PhD
Senior Research Engineer
Michael Jaffe, PhD
Senior Program Consultant
Colin Gorman
Program Manager
Mosa Al Zowelei, MS BME
Clinical Engineer
David Guffrey, MS, MSM, CEH, HCISPP, ITIL,
Medical Device Cybersecurity Program Manager
Simon Kelly, BSc
Lead Developer
Braga Aroulmozhi, MS BME
Application Developer
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 Military Health Research Advisor
Alumni
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
Kathryn Koury
Clinical Research Coordinator
Emma Sconyers
Research & Grants Assistant
Mike Feinberg
Embedded Software Developer
About us
The Lab
The original Medical Device Plug-and-Play (MD PnP) Lab located at 65 Landsdowne Street in Cambridge opened in 2006. It provided an environment of computing and medical device resources to support projects, testing, and prototyping work by the MD PnP team and international collaborators. As of August 2017, the original 1800 sq. ft. facility has been replaced with a custom-designed 3200 sq. ft. lab suite that has greatly expanded networking infrastructure and clinical workflow simulation environment to support interoperability and cybersecurity research.
Organizational Collaborators
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.
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
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
grant numbers CNS-10-35715, IIS-1239242, CNS-08-34524, and CNS-08-34709
Disaster Telemedicine Response System (DISTRESS)
Award number: MTEC-2020-538-001
Semiautonomous Anesthesia and Sedation Devices for Military Medical Care
Award number: W81XWH-22-9-004
MTEC TiDE Remote Control of Mechanical Ventilators
Award number: W81XWH-15-9-001
TiDE Accelerating Medical Device Interoperability and Autonomy (MDIA)
Award number: 2017-605
Device Interoperability and Autonomy Coordinating Center (DIACC)
Award number: 1160555