CIMIT fosters and nurtures interdisciplinary collaboration among world-class experts in medicine, science and engineering, in concert with industry and government, to rapidly improve patient care. A non-profit consortium of Boston area teaching hospitals and engineering schools, CIMIT provides innovators with resources to explore, develop and implement novel technological solutions for today’s most urgent healthcare problems.

CIMIT’s mission is based on our firm belief that better health care for people world-wide is within our reach, and that technology can and should be part of the solution. CIMIT is uniquely capable of contributing to that goal.

In just nine years, CIMIT has demonstrated the power of connecting creative minds from diverse areas of expertise, proving that actively catalyzing the collaborative process accelerates progress in applying new technologies to healthcare needs. CIMIT-enabled teams have produced truly novel, cost-effective healthcare solutions. For example:

• Training devices and systems including mannequins that realistically mimic, or simulate, actual human medical problems in healthcare settings. Either an individual clinician, or teams of caregivers, can practice difficult procedures in a safe environment using these technologies or simulated scenarios rather than learning on live patients.
• The Operating Room of the Future (ORF), an innovatively designed working surgical suite used daily to perform minimally invasive procedures with the aid of advanced, networked communications that shorten procedure time, reduce pain and speed recovery for patients, while also serving as a learning laboratory for new technologies.
• Micro-electronic technology with the potential to help diagnose illnesses based on analysis of patient’s exhaled breath. The same technology is being developed by CIMIT to accurately detect airborne infectious diseases and sense bio-terrorism threats.

CIMIT is rapidly gaining ground in ways that could previously only be imagined—and thousands of patients have already felt the impact of these and other achievements.

CIMIT at a Glance

Founded:	1998
Member Institutions:	11
Industry Partners:	60+
Projects Funded:	420+
Active Projects:	121+
Principal Investigators:	200+
Peer-Reviewed Publications:	450+
Invention Disclosures:	170+
Patent Applications:	80
Patents Issued:	20+
Options and Licenses:	30
Companies Formed:	12
Direct CIMIT Funding:	$125 million+
CIMIT-Enabled Funding:	$130 million+

Direct Benefits to Patients & Physicians

Patients Treated in MGH Operating Room of the Future:	4000+
Physicians Trained using Simulated System for Interventional Cardiology:	10,000+
Minimally Invasive Fibroid Tumor Removal:	in practice
Remote Monitoring of Stroke Patients	in practice
Minimally Invasive Bariatric Surgery for Weight Loss	in practice

 

Read More:

CIMIT's Annual Review

CIMIT Strategic Priorities & Programs

CIMIT Fact Sheet