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The Medical Device "Plug-and-Play" (MD PnP) Interoperability Program is leading the adoption of open standards and technologies for safe integration of medical devices and HIT to improve patient safety and healthcare efficiency.

 

Quantum Project

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CONTACT INFORMATION

MD PnP Program
65 Landsdowne St., Suite 200
Cambridge, MA 02139
info@mdpnp.org

Julian M. Goldman, MD
Program Director
jgoldman@mdpnp.org

Sue Whitehead

Program Manager
617-768-8760
swhitehead@partners.org
The MD PnP Program received a $10M NIH Phase II Quantum Grant in 2010 for the development of a prototype healthcare intranet for improved health outcomes. This Quantum Medical Moonshot Grant was awarded for projects with a highly focused, collaborative, interdisciplinary, and milestone-driven approach, targeted to solve a major medical problem or to resolve a highly prevalent technology-based medical challenge.

What do we mean by a "healthcare intranet"?
A system to enable interoperable, reliable, private, secure, affordable, integration of medical devices and clinical information systems/EHRS to deliver innovative medical device “apps” to improve the safety, quality, efficacy, and efficiency of healthcare delivery.

Organizations collaborating on the MD PnP Quantum Project include:
CIMIT/Massachusetts General Hospital (Julian Goldman P.I.)
Anakena Solutions, California (Michael Robkin)
DocBoxInc, Waltham, MA (Tracy Rausch)
Penn (Insup Lee)
Kansas State University (J. Hatcliff)
Moberg Research, Ambler, PA (Dick Moberg)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Lui Sha)
Tim Gee - Medical Device integration consultant
FDA – CDRH/OSEL/DESE
VA – OHI/Office of JIV (Dr. Doug Rosendale)

The NIH project is also an HHS ONC Health IT SHARP affiliated program, under SHARP area 5 as "MD SHARP".

In 2011 NIH  reorganized their project portfolio and re-categorized our Quantum award as a "Research Project Cooperative Agreement".