Panel Discussion; Improving Patient Safety and Clinical Workflow: System Integration through Medical Device Interoperability

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Panel Discussion: Improving Patient Safety and Clinical Workflow: System Integration through Medical Device Interoperability

5.12.2009

PANELISTS:
Julian Goldman, MD, Medical Director of Biomedical Engineering, Partners HealthCare; Principal Anesthesiologist, MGH "Operating Room of the Future"; CIMIT Director of Interoperability; Founder, Medical Device "Plug-and-Play" Interoperability Program

Andrew Reisner, MD, Emergency Physician, MGH; HMS, MIT, and US Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center

Peter Szolovits, PhD, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology; Head, Clinical Decision-Making Group, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Forum Abstract

Fully integrated clinical environments will support real-time decision support, complete clinical documentation, and closed-loop therapy. Despite these important clinical benefits there have been longstanding challenges to successful implementation. Our panelists will add their perspective on current and historical efforts to leveraging clinical and information technologies to enable healthcare innovation.