When: June 25-27, 2007

Where: Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, MA

Feature: Jeffrey Robbins, LiveData President & CEO will give a presentation on the topic of emerging standards and medical device interoperability

Please join us at the joint workshop on High Confidence Medical Devices, Software, and Systems (HCMDSS) and Medical Device Plug-and-Play (MD PnP). The workshop provides a forum for the presentation of research and development covering all aspects of high integrity medical devices, software, and systems. This work  supports innovative networked medical device systems in order to improve safety and efficiency in health care.

The purpose of the HCMDSS/MD PnP workshop is to provide a working forum for medical device specialists, including researchers, developers, and caregivers, from clinical environments, industry, research laboratories, academia, and government, with the goal of advancing science, technology, and practice to overcome crucial medical devices, software, and systems issues and challenges facing the design, manufacture, certification, and use of medical devices.

This is HCMDSS/MD PnP 's first jointly sponsored conference (NSF and TATRC) and also its first joint conference between their two academic centers—Mass General Hospital/Partners HealthCare and the University of Pennsylvania. The agenda is still under development, and includes renown keynote speakers, over a dozen technical papers, and two interactive panels, as well as demonstrations and poster presentations. A preliminary agenda follows:

Breakfast daily 7:30-8:30am

Monday, June 25, 2007

Welcome and Conference Overview: Workshop Co-Chairs Dr. Julian Goldman and Professor Insup Lee
Keynote Presentation: Dr. Robert Kolodner, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Panel on The Clinical Need
Lunch
Technical Session 1: Interoperability Issues
Technical Session 2: High Confidence Medical Device Software

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Keynote Presentation: Dr. John Rushby, Program Director for Formal Methods & Dependable Systems, SRI International
Technical Session 3: Sensor Networks
Lunch
Posters and demos (MD PnP Lab: 65 Landsdowne St)
CIMIT Forum (4:00-6:00pm): Accelerating Interoperability
Dave Whitlinger, Director, Healthcare Device Standards, Intel Corporation
John Howse, MD, National Chair, Anesthesia, Patient Monitoring, & Respiratory Care Equipment Committees, Kaiser Permanente
Mike Bainbridge, MD, UK National Health Service, Connecting for Health programme

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Keynote Presentation: Dr. Mike Bainbridge, UK National Health Service, Connecting for Health programme
Panel on Government Perspectives on HCMDSS and MD PnP
Lunch
Technical Session 4: Interoperability Solutions
Abstract Talks and Working Groups
Workshop Wrap-Up and Next Steps
4:00pm Adjourn

The workshop capacity is limited. In addition to presenters and sponsors, we expect to have 50-60 seats available for interested participants. General registration is now open via the web site—registration fees are listed below.

Please note that hotel reservations in the HCMDSS/MD PnP room block can be made at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge now. The room block rate is only available until June 4, so book your room now!

Full workshop registration:                      $495         Early Bird rate (by June 1):  $395
Government, academic, not-for-profit:    $295         Early Bird rate (by June 1):  $195
Students (with ID):                                   $150         Early Bird rate (by June 1):    $95

Presenters of the selected technical papers receive an additional $100 discount.

We hope to see you in June!
*** Remember: Book your hotel room by June 4th ***
 

To learn about  HCMDSS, go to http://rtg.cis.upenn.edu/hcmdss/index.php3

To learn more about MD PnP, go to>

For more information, contact LiveData VP of Marketing, Jeff Scott ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it ; 617-576-6506).