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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.

 

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> MD PnP White Paper
> ICE Standard (ASTM F2761)
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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
David Arney
Lead Engineer, MD PnP Program

David Arney is the Lead Engineer for the Medical Device Plug and Play Program. He has been working on applying formal methods to medical device software since 2001 and was a scholar in residence at the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health in the Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories. He was involved in writing the ASTM 2761-09 ICE standard for interoperable medical devices. He started at the MD PnP program in September of 2010, and is currently writing his dissertation for a PhD in computer science under Professor Insup Lee at the University of Pennsylvania.


Rick Schrenker
Senior Biomedical Engineer, MD PnP Program
Systems Engineering Manager, Massachusetts General Hospital
Rick Schrenker currently provides systems engineering services to the MGH Department of Biomedical Engineering and the MD PnP Program. His interests are on the application of formal systems engineering in health care, focusing in on requirements, validation, assurance, and risk management. He has held clinical engineering and clinical engineering management positions at Johns Hopkins Hospital as well as MGH since entering the field in 1979. Rick holds a BS and MS in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Rick is active in AAMI and its information technology and medical software standards related efforts. He is a member of the IEEE and its Medical Technology and Policy Committee, as well as the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) and its Biomedical Engineering Working Group.


Pratyusha Mattegunta
Clinical Engineer, MD PnP Program
Pratyusha Mattegunta, MS Biomedical/Clinical Engineering, is currently a Clinical Engineer for the Medical Device Plug-and-Play Interoperability Program (MD PnP). Previously, she worked as a Clinical Engineer at UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, on projects related to medical device integration with the EMR, medical equipment planning, procurement and logistics, technology assessment and evaluations, and project management. Pratyusha obtained her Master’s degree in Biomedical/ Clinical engineering at the University of Connecticut. She has her Bachelors in Biomedical Engineering from JNTU, India, during which she did an internship at CARE Hospitals, one of the leading Cardiology Hospitals in India.


Andrea Lenco
Research Assistant, MD PnP Program
Andrea Lenco is a Research and Grants Assistant for the MD PnP Program. She is a recent graduate from the Boston University School of Public Health MPH Program where she studied Maternal and Child Health. Previously, she worked as a Course Manager at Harvard Medical School.