CIMIT Alliance with Singapore’s A*STAR to expand consortium engineering and technology implementation resources.

CIMIT and A*STAR  have announced the formation of a strategic alliance between the two organizations, a relationship that will open new doors of opportunity for collaboration between CIMIT consortium researchers and clinician, engineering and technology colleagues in Singapore. 

“Patients are the real beneficiaries of this alliance,” CIMIT executive director, John A. Parrish said in making the announcement in Boston.  “Through this border-crossing multidisciplinary research and organizational collaboration, we have a unique opportunity to create and accelerate the adoption of novel technologies into clinical care.” 

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LiveData Utilizing TATRC Grant in Support
of Medical Device Plug-and-Play Interoperability

Researchers at LiveData, Inc. are utilizing a $730,000 SBIR grant from the U.S. Army Medicine and Advanced Technology Center (TATRC) for Phase 2 development of an integrated clinical environment manager with CIMIT’s Medical Device Plug-and-Play team and MGH's Director of OR Innovation Warren Sandberg, MD. The company is focused on developing a clinical and operational workflow alert manager and IT extensible user interface for its OR-Dashboard patient safety system. CIMIT's MD-PnP Interoperability initiative, led by Julian Goldman, MD, enables a new level of patient safety and hospital regulatory compliance by aligning healthcare IT and medical device standards with clinical use cases. LiveData is a Cambridge company that got its start in healthcare through CIMIT's Operating Room of the Future project and member company of CIMIT's Industry Liaison Program (ILP). Companies get connected to the CIMIT network, form collaborations, support ongoing research and gain insight into the future of care through basic membership or more targeted customized services. CIMIT's ILP works to ensure successful collaboration, accelerate the technology development process, and more quickly impact patient care.

Learn more about the CIMIT Medical Device Plug-and-Play Interoperability and Operating Room of the Future Programs.

CIMIT Exporatorium

The Exploratorium is the hallmark of the Innovation Congress — it's where technology innovation comes to life. Unlike any other exhibit hall, the Exploratorium highlights interactive, hands-on demonstrations of emerging technologies by both interdisciplinary teams from academia and their visionary counterparts from industry.

» View the 2009 exhibits in the four pavilions: Care Anywhere, Breakthrough Technologies, Wounded Warrior, & Innovation 101.
» View the 2008 exhibits.

Thank you to our CIMIT Innovation Congress 2009 Sponsors.

Gold Sponsors:
A*STAR: Agency for Science, Technology and Research; Air Liquide

Silver Sponsors:
Raytheon BBN Technologies, DARPA, GE Healthcare, Lockheed Martin

Bronze Sponsors:
Aptima, BioStar Group, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Cyberonics, Hewlett-Packard, Kinetic Concepts, Masimo, NeuroLogica, Olympus, Physical Sciences Inc., Qualcomm, Karl Storz, Third Rock Ventures