HCMDSS / MD PnP'07

Improving Patient Safety through Medical Device Interoperability
and High Confidence Software

Joint Workshop on High Confidence Medical Devices, Software,
and Systems (HCMDSS) and Medical Device Plug-and-Play (MD PnP) Interoperability

June 25-27, 2007, Cambridge, MA

With support from: TATRC (U.S. Army Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center), NSF (National Science Foundation),

AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality),

CIMIT (Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology), Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania

Hyatt Regency Cambridge, 575 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

Monday, June 25

7:30 – 8:30am Registration / Continental Breakfast

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8:30 – 8:55am Welcome from Workshop Co-Chairs and Conference Overview

Insup Lee, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Julian M Goldman, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital / CIMIT

8:55 – 9:00am Welcome from CIMIT

John A Parrish, MD, Director

9:00 – 10:00am Keynote Address:

Robert M Kolodner, MD, National Coordinator for Health IT

10:00 – 10:20am Break

Monday, June 25 (continued)

10:20 – 12:00 noon Panel on The Clinical Need

Moderator and Introduction to Panel: Julian M Goldman, MD

Jeffrey Cooper, PhD, Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, MGH

Sandy Weininger, PhD, Food & Drug Administration

Jennifer Jackson, MBA, CCE, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

James Philip, MEE, MD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital

Steven Dain, MD, University of Western Ontario

James Fackler, MD, Johns Hopkins Medical Center

Panel Discussion

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12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch Buffet and Extended Abstract Talks (starting at 12:30)

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1:00 – 3:00pm Technical Session 1: Interoperability Challenges

Introduction to Session: Glenn Himes, Mitre Corporation

Medical Device Interoperability: Assessing the Environment

Kathy Lesh, Sandy Weininger, Julian Goldman, Bob Wilson, Glenn Himes

See roster for institutional affiliations.

Moving Toward Semantic Interoperability of Medical Devices

John Garguilo, Sandra Martinez, Richard Rivello, Maria Cherkaoui

NIST – National Institute of Standards & Technology

Clinical Requirements Methodology: Incorporating Clinical Workflows to Improve Device/System Development

Invited Speakers: Jennifer Jackson, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Tracy Rausch, DocBox Inc. (formerly at Kaiser Permanente)

Clinical Requirements Methodology: Ensuring Sufficient Breadth in Use Case Development – How Should Non-Functional Requirements be Elicited and Represented?

Invited Speaker: Richard Schrenker, Massachusetts General Hospital

Challenges for the Large Integrated Healthcare Delivery System

Invited Speaker: Michael Robkin, Kaiser Permanente

Session Recap & Discussion: Glenn Himes

3:00 – 3:30pm Break

3:30 – 5:00pm Technical Session 2: High Confidence Medical Device Software

Introduction to Session: Helen Gill, NSF

Formal Methods Based Development of a PCA Infusion Pump Reference Model: Generic Infusion Pump (GIP) Project

David Arney, Raoul Jetley, Paul Jones, Insup Lee, Oleg Sokolsky

See roster for institutional affiliations.

Monday, June 25 (continued)

Point-of-Care Support for Error-Free Medication Process

JWS Liu, CS Shih, PH Tsai, HC Yeh, PC Hsiu, CY Yu, WH Chang

See roster for institutional affiliations.

A Survey of Software Engineering Techniques in Medical Device Development

Raimund L. Feldmann, Forrest Shull, Christian Denger, Martin Höst, Christin Lindholm

See roster for institutional affiliations.

5:00 – 6:00pm Abstract Talks

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6:00 – 7:00pm Reception and

7:00 – 9:00pm Dinner – at Hyatt Regency, Charles View Ballroom

Dinner Speaker: Nat Sims, MD, Physician Advisor, Partners HealthCare Biomedical Engineering at Massachusetts General Hospital

Introduced by Warren M. Zapol, MD, Reginald Jenny Professor, and Chairman, Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital

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Tuesday, June 26

7:30 – 8:30am Continental Breakfast

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8:30 – 8:45am Introduction to Day #2: Insup Lee

8:45 – 9:45am Keynote Address:

John Rushby, PhD, Program Director for Formal Methods & Dependable Systems, SRI International

9:45 – 10:00am Break

10:00 – 12:00 noon Technical Session 3: Sensor Networks

Introduction to Session: Azer Bestavros, Boston University

User Access of Public Shared Devices in Pervasive Computing Environments

David Jea, Ian Yap, Mani Srivastava

UCLA

PAS: A Wireless-Enabled, Sensor-Integrated Personal Assistance System for Independent and Assisted Living

Jennifer Hou, Qixin Wang, Linda Ball, Stanley Birge, Marco Caccamo, Chin-Fei Cheah, Eric Gilbert, Carl Gunter, Elsa Gunter, Chang-Gun Lee, Karrie Karahalios, Min-Young Nam, Narasimhan Nitya, Chaudhri Rohit, Lui Sha, Wook Shin, Yang Yu, Zheng Zeng

See roster for institutional affiliations.

Tuesday, June 26 (continued)

A Novel Method and Testbed for Sensor Management and Patient Diagnosis

Winston Wu, Maxim Batalin, Alex Bui, Majid Sarrafzadeh, William Kaiser

UCLA

Platform Design for Healthcare Monitoring Applications

Roozbeh Jafari, Ruzena Bajcsy, Steven Glaser, Bruce Gnade, Marco Sgroi

See roster for institutional affiliations.

Session Recap: Azer Bestavros

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12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch Buffet and Extended Abstract Talks (starting at 12:30)

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1:00 – 1:20pm Overview of Afternoon Sessions

Julian Goldman

1:20 – 1:45pm Transport to CIMIT (Cambridge), 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge

1:45 – 3:50pm Demos and Posters at MD PnP Lab, CIMIT (Cambridge)

Various Presenters

3:50 – 4:00pm Move into CIMIT Forum (beverages and snacks provided)

65 Landsdowne Street, Room 103 (same building)

4:00 – 6:00pm CIMIT Forum

Moderated by Julian M. Goldman, MD

Accelerating Interoperability:

Dave Whitlinger, Director, Healthcare Device Standards, Intel Corporation

Zachary Zimmerman, MD/MS, Chair of Chiefs of Anesthesia, Kaiser Permanente

Ray Zambuto, IHE-USA

Panel: Jeff Robbins, LiveData Inc., Carl Wallroth, Drager Medical, Dave Whitlinger, Zachary Zimmerman, Ray Zambuto

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6:30 – 8:30pm Reception – MIT Museum

Mass Ave, Cambridge (5-minute walk from 65 Landsdowne St)

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Wednesday, June 27

7:30 – 8:30am Continental Breakfast

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8:30 – 8:45am Introduction to Day #3: Julian Goldman

8:45 – 9:45am Government Perspectives

Invited Speakers: Sally Howe, National Coordination Office for Networking & Information Technology Research & Development (NITRD)

Sylvia Spengler, NSF, Michael Fitzmaurice, AHRQ

Introduction to Panel: Vish Sankaran, Federal Health Architecture, Office of the National Coordinator for HIT

9:45 – 10:00am Break

10:00 – 11:30am Panel on Government Perspectives on Medical Device Interoperability

Moderator: Vish Sankaran

NIST: John J Garguilo

FDA: Sandy Weininger

TATRC: Ronald Marchessault

NSF: Scott Midkiff

NIH: Zohara Cohen

Panel Discussion and Q&A

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11:30 – 12:30pm Networking Lunch Buffet

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12:30 – 2:45pm Technical Session 4: Interoperability Solutions

Introduction to Session: Jeff Robbins, LiveData Inc.

MD-Adapt: A Proposed Architecture for Open-Source Medical Device Interoperability

Interoperable Medical Devices Due to Standardized CANopen Interfaces

Reiner Zitzmann, Thilo Schumann

CAN in Automation

Building Reliable MD PnP Systems

Mu Sun, Qixin Wang, Lui Sha

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Agent-Based Plug-and-Play Integration of Role-Enabled Medical Devices

Giacomo Cabri, Francesco De Mola, Letizia Leonardi

University of Modena, ITALY

Plug-and-Play and Network-Capable Medical Instrumentation and Database with a Complete Healthcare Technology Suite: MediCAN

Paul McKneely, Frank Chapman, Deniz Gurkan

MediCAN Systems, University of Houston

Wednesday, June 27 (continued)

Session Recap: Jeff Robbins

2:45 – 3:00pm Break

3:00 – 3:45pm Breakouts for Working Groups (brainstorming key issues)

Facilitators TBD

· Adverse Event Reporting

· Human Computer Interface

· Validation and Certification

· MD PnP Ontology

· Life-Cycle Management of Interoperable Medical Device Systems

· Interoperability Requirements in Contract Language

3:45 – 4:15pm Working Groups report back

4:15 – 4:30pm Commentary: View from the Blogosphere

Tim Gee, www.medicalconnectivity.com

4:30 – 5:00pm Workshop Wrap-up: Lessons Learned and Next Steps

Insup Lee and Julian M. Goldman, MD

5:00pm Adjourn

Please Note: Full institutional affiliations by individual will be available in the published Proceedings of the meeting.