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