20th Anniversary
Thank you for attending the 2024 Symposium on Smart and Autonomous Medical Systems (SaAMS)
Celebrating our new Center for SaAMS
20 years ago, the Massachusetts General Hospital embarked on developing a new vision and technologies to ensure patient safety and improve health outcomes with the establishment of the MD PnP Program.
Building on this foundation, the Center for Smart and Autonomous Medical Systems at Mass General is leading the path forward to leverage connected medical devices, apps, and platforms to safely and efficiently deliver transformative patient-care solutions.
On June 6th, 2024, the Center for SaAMS convened clinicians, researchers, engineers, regulatory experts, industry partners, and other thought leaders in an inaugural Symposium to realize the potential of these important technologies. See the agenda below for details.
The Symposium was livestreamed. See links to the presentations on the agenda below.
See Speakers Bios and download the agenda.
Some of the topics covered:
- Technology-associated challenges providers are facing in delivering safe and efficient care
- Military and civilian perspectives on clinical outcomes enabled by technology
- Innovation enablement and translation: leadership perspectives from federal agencies, academic and industry leaders
- Utilizing standards, systems, regulatory science and evolving SaAMS technologies towards patient safety, cybersecurity and medical device interoperability
- Leveraging the new SaAMS Collaborative Community to advance the maturity, adoption and clinical use of SaAMS to improve patient care through developing pre-competitive shared risk-management information.
Event Info
Reception
Wednesday, June 5th
4:30 – 6:30pm
Mass General Brigham
3rd Floor Atrium
399 Revolution Drive, Somerville, MA
Symposium
Thursday, June 6th
8:00am – 5:00pm
Mass General Brigham
Markell Conference Center
399 Revolution Drive, Somerville, MA
Dress Code
Business Casual
Speakers
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Event Speakers
Agenda
Symposium videos are linked in the agenda below. (Slides are being added.)
Theme
Time
Title or Topic
Speaker
Welcome: Leveraging Past Innovations to Ensure a Successful Future for SaAMS
8:00am
30 mins
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Video
Julian M. Goldman, MD
Symposium Chair
Attending Anesthesiologist, MGH
Director, Medical Device “Plug-and-Play” Interoperability & Cybersecurity Program
and Center for Smart & Autonomous Systems,
Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
8:30
15 mins
Technology-Associated Challenges Providers are Facing in Delivering Safe and Efficient Care
Video
Adam Landman, MD
Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President
Mass General Brigham Digital
Understanding Clinical Needs to Inform the Work of the SaAMS Collaborative Community
8:45
55 mins
Military and Veterans Perspectives on Clinical Outcomes Enabled by Technology
Video
Eric Goralnick, MD (Moderator)
Director, Military and Veterans Initiatives
Mass General Brigham
Jeremy Pamplin COL, MC
Commander
Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center Medical Research and Development Command
Loretta Schlachta-Fairchild, PhD FACHE LTC(ret) AN
Principal and Chief Executive Officer
ITELEHEALTH
Therese West, DNP, APN, BC
Defense Health Agency
Combat Casualty Care Research Program
Mark Zhang, DO MMSc
Chief Innovation Officer
Veterans Health Administration
9:40
55 mins
Civilian Healthcare Perspectives on Clinical Outcomes Enabled by Technology
Video
S. Mark Poler, MD (Moderator)
Chief, Central Region Anesthesia
Geisinger
Paul Biddinger, MD
Chief Preparedness & Continuity Officer
Mass General Brigham
Ariella Goldman, MD MPH
Assistant Professor OBGYN
Mount Sinai Hospital
Rob Kolodner, MD FACMI
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
ViTel Net
Hiyam Nadel, MBA, RN, CCG, FIEL
Director, Center for Innovations in Care Delivery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Break
10:35
15 mins
Innovation Enablement and Translation: Leadership Perspectives from Federal Agencies, Academic and Industry Leaders
10:50
5 mins
Existing Technologies, Systems, Standards and Programs to Accelerate SaAMS and Enable Patient Safety
Julian M. Goldman, MD
Anesthesiologist and Director
Medical Device “Plug & Play” Interoperability & Cybersecurity Program and Center for Smart & Autonomous Systems
Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
10:55
10 mins
The Value Proposition of SaAMS
Video
Tracy Rausch, CCE
Chief Innovation Officer
DocBox, Inc.
11:05
20 mins
Utilization of Synergistic Systems Towards Patient Safety
Video
Anura Fernando, MSE
Global Head of Medical Device Security
UL Solutions
Sandy Weininger, PhD
Senior Biomedical Engineer
United States Food and Drug Administration
11:25
10 mins
Leveraging Existing Standards to Enable Innovation
Video
Dave Osborn
Manager
International Standards at Philips Medical Systems
11:35
10 mins
Pre-Competitive Collaborations to Advance Regulatory Science
Video
Linda Ricci
Deputy Director
Office of Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation
United States Food and Drug Administration
11:45
10 mins
Methods Toward Adoption of New Technologies and Systems in Clinical Care
Video
Thomas McCoy, MD
Enterprise Architect
Mass General Brigham
11:55
10 mins
Perspectives on Next Generation Engineering Systems
Video
Grace Peng, PhD
Program Director
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
National Institutes of Health
12:05
10 mins
Leveraging Civilian and Military Collaborations to Accelerate Medical Innovation and Translation
Video
Eric Goralnick, MD
Director, Military and Veterans Initiatives
Mass General Brigham
Networking Lunch
12:15
45 mins
Overview: Mission and Mandate of the SaAMS Collaborative Community
1:00
15 mins
Sponsor Acknowledgements,
Demonstration of Ventilator Remote Control in MGH MD PnP Lab, MD PnP Team Recognition, and comments by Jeremy Pamplin, COL, MC, US Army / TATRC, and Hagit Jarne-Goldshtain, Vice President of Marketing, Nihon Kohden.
Entire Video
Link directly to Video at start of SaAMS Collaborative Community Overview by Dr. Goldman.
Link to Comments by Jeremy Pamplin, COL, MC, and
Hagit Jarne-Goldshtain, VP of Marketing, Nihon Kohden
Collaborative Community Web Page, Slides,
and Charter
Julian M. Goldman, MD
Anesthesiologist and Director
Medical Device “Plug & Play” Interoperability & Cybersecurity Program and Center for Smart & Autonomous Systems
Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
Refining the Work to be Done by the SaAMS Collaborative Community
1:15
35 mins
Breakout A – Technical Science
Caitlyn Scales, PhD (Moderator)
Co-founder and Strategic Consultant
Second Hub Collaborative
Facilitators
Steven Dain, MD
Chief Medical Informatics Officer
DocBox, Inc.
Shoumen Datta, PhD
Senior Scientist
Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1:50
30 mins
Breakout B – Clinical Impact
Matthew Quinn
Science Director
Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center
Tracy Rausch, CCE
Chief Innovation Officer
DocBox, Inc.
Loretta Schlachta-Fairchild, PhD FACHE LTC(ret) AN
Principal and Chief Executive Officer
ITELEHEALTH
Sandy Weininger, PhD
Senior Biomedical Engineer
United States Food and Drug Administration
2:20
65 mins
Breakout Group Findings
Facilitators
Break
3:25
15 mins
Setting the Stage for Success
3:40
50 mins
Summarizing Today’s Learnings and Guiding Principles to Make the SaAMS Collaborative Community a Success
Video
Sara Silacci (Moderator)
Principal
Margin4Mission, LLC
Shoumen Datta, PhD
Senior Scientist
Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Matthew Quinn
Science Director
Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center
Tracy Rausch, CCE
Chief Innovation Officer
DocBox, Inc.
Loretta Schlachta-Fairchild, PhD FACHE LTC(ret)AN
Principal and Chief Executive Officer
ITELEHEALTH
Sandy Weininger, PhD
Senior Biomedical Engineer
United States Food and Drug Administration
4:30
20 mins
Future Directions to Ensure Successful Scale and Impact
Video
Heather Agler, PhD
Senior Science Health Advisor
Federal Drug Administration
Chris Coburn
Chief Innovation Officer
Mass General Brigham
4:50
10 mins
(closing remarks)
Closing Remarks
Video
Julian Goldman, MD
Anesthesiologist and Director
Medical Device “Plug & Play” Interoperability & Cybersecurity Program and Center for Smart & Autonomous Systems
Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine