Julian M. Goldman, MD, Honored with Health Care Clinical Application Award

The Association for Advancement of Medical Instrumentation recently announced that Julian M. Goldman, MD, is the 2009 recipient of the AAMI Foundation/Institute for Technology in Health Care Clinical Application Award.

The AAMI Foundation/Institute for Technology and Healthcare Clinical Application Award is given to an individual (CE, BMET, physician, nurse, hospital administrator, etc.) who has applied innovative clinical engineering practices or principles in order to solve one or more significant clinical patient care problems or challenges facing a patient population, community, or group.

Dr. Goldman was honored for his work with interoperability and founding of the Medical Device Plug-and-Play (MD PnP) Interoperability Program. The CIMIT Interoperability program is a national collaboration of industry, government and academic medicine advocating for medical device interoperability.

“The future for using interoperability to improve patient safety is promising,” Dr. Goldman remarked. “We have a growing coalition committed to advancing this important patient safety initiative. And, as we come closer to creating a medical intranet with appropriate security, reliability, and seamless connectivity to medical devices and information technology (IT) systems, the benefits of device interoperability will become increasingly clear.”

Dr. Goldman practices clinical anesthesia in the MGH Operating Room of the Future, serves as Medical Director of Partners HealthCare Biomedical Engineering. Click here to find more information about the award and an AAMI News interview with Dr. Goldman.

CIMIT Medical Device Plug-and-Play
The Medical Device "Plug-and-Play" Interoperability program is an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional program committed to advancing medical device interoperability to improve patient safety and healthcare efficiency. Networked medical device systems will support the widespread clinical use of medical data and enable medical device integration to produce complete and accurate electronic health records, create error-resistant systems, and reduce healthcare costs.

CIMIT
CIMIT (Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology) 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.

AAMI
The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), a nonprofit organization founded in 1967, is a unique alliance of nearly 6,000 members from around the world united by the common goal of increasing the understanding and beneficial use of medical instrumentation.