Patient-Centric Network




The Patient-Centric Network (PCN) project is a collaboration between researchers and clinicians from MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, MIT's Laboratory of Computer Science, and CIMIT, the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology

Today's medical environment is full of excellent point devices for gathering data about the state of a patient. Unfortunately, relatively little attention has been devoted to integrating this information, and providing it to medical practitioners in the most useful possible way. This is a manifestation of devoting insufficient attention to systems issues.

The PCN team is currently developing a prototype that directly addresses these systems issues. The system consists of software components running on general purpose computers and networks, not special-purpose, proprietary boxes. The software links users with a variety of medical sensors and actuators. We expect the prototype to demonstrate a potential to accelerate innovation, decrease cost, and improve the clinical quality of medical care.

For more information, please send email to pcn@lcs.mit.edu.

Team members

Faculty
  • Dr. John Guttag
  • Physicians
  • Dr. Reuben Mezrich
  • Dr. Nathaniel Sims
  • Staff
  • Dorothy Curtis
  • Michel Goraczko
  • Graduate Students
  • Greg Harfst
  • Eugene Shih
  • Jason Gift
  • Ali Shoeb
  • Zeeshan Syed
  • Undergraduate Students
  • Asfandyar Qureshi
  • Gina Yi