The rapidly increasing software complexity of medical devices makes the development of high integrity software a crucial issue. Several Federal agencies are interested in identifying the research needs required to improve the design, certification, and operation (by both health care professionals and consumers) of medical device software and systems that will result in better and more cost-effective medical care.

The November 2004 planning meeting assembled a select group of leaders and visionaries in the medical device industry, research laboratories, academia, and government who helped identify short-term and long-term technological challenges faced by medical device manufacturers and regulators.

Information gathered from this planning meeting is being used to establish the full scope and agenda for a larger national-level research workshop slated for June 2005. The objective of the workshop will be to identify and discuss potential approaches that can help answer the challenges.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Insup Lee - University of Pennsylvania (Chair)

George J. Pappas - University of Pennsylvania

Janos Sztipanovits - Vanderbilt University

Doug Schmidt - Vanderbilt University

Shankar Sastry - University of California-Berkeley

Program Committee

Tarek Abdelzaher, Unviersity of Virginia

Rance Cleaveland, Reactive Systems, Inc.

Helen Gill, National Science Foundation

Julian M. Goldman, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

John Hatcliff, Kansas State University

Paul L. Jones, Food and Drug Administration

Bruce Krogh, Carnegie Mellon University

Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania

Peter Lee, Carnegie Mellon University

Brian Litt, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania

Jane Liu, IIS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

William Bradley Martin, National Security Agency

George J. Pappas, University of Pennsylvania

Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University

Victoria L. Rich, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania/School of Nursing

Douglas Rosendale, Veterans Affairs Office of Information and Surgery

Harvey Rubin, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Doug Schmidt, Vanderbilt University

Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University