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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Videos and other details from our Conference on "Improving Patient Safety through Medical Device Interoperability
and High Confidence Software"
June 25-27, 2007, Cambridge, MA are still avaliable at:
http://mdpnp.org/MD_PnP_Meetings.php
[updated August 2008]
The Challenge: How can we integrate medical devices to improve the safety of medical care?

Medical devices are essential to the practice of modern medicine. Clinical measurements like blood pressure and temperature, x-ray and ultrasound imaging, administration of intravenous medications, and support of critical life functions all require medical devices. However, despite our reliance on sophisticated medical equipment, each device is designed to stand alone as an island. It is difficult to integrate individual devices into interoperable (inter-connected) systems to improve patient care and avoid unnecessary accidents.

The MD PnP Program

The Medical Device "Plug-and-Play" Interoperability (or MD PnP) program is a inter-disciplinary, multi-institutional program committed to advancing medical device interoperability to improve patient safety and healthcare efficiency. Networked medical device systems will support the widespread clinical use of medical data and enable medical device integration, to produce complete and accurate electronic health records, create error-resistant systems, and reduce healthcare costs.

The MD PnP program is based at CIMIT and the Massachusetts General Hospital (part of the Partners HealthCare System). We welcome your participation. (White Paper)


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PROGRAM NEWS
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
and story posted on CIMIT's web site: "CIMIT’s Kennedy Award goes to team developing Plug-and-Play"
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).

September 2007 June 2007 Conference video has been uploaded. See most of the sessions presented at the three-day conference at  http://www.cimit.org/mdpnpjune07/start.htm

Oct 2006 - "Medical Device Interoperability for Improving Safety and Efficiency" panel was held at the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists October 2006.  See the January issue of Anesthesiology News.
ASA Topics and speakers are on the "Program News" page.

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 Poster

May 24, 2006 - The MD PnP Lab is now open!  See the "Lab" page for more info.
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