Quantum Leap Technologies

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Quantum Leap Technologies Tuesday,
November 16, 2004 - 245 p.m. Quality Hotel
Arlington, Virginia Facilitator Raj Rajkumar
(Carnegie Mellon University) Recorder Harvey
Rubin (Infectious diseases/Computer
Science) Participants Victoria Rich (Chief
Nurse, U Penn Hospital, Assistant Dean) Dan
Maloney (Department of Veterans
Affairs) Russell Taylor (Computer Science,
Radiology) Jane Liu ( SINICA-Taiwan) Steve
Van Albert (Walter Reed Medical Center) Robert
Galloway (Vanderbilt University) Brian Litt
(University of Pennsylvania, Clinical
Neurologist, Bioengineering) John Zaleski
(Siemens New critical care product
line) Insup Lee (University of Penn) Frankie
King (National Coordination Office)
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Whatever the technology (device)

• Integrate across temporal profile
• Integration across
• user
• provider
• manufacturer
• Validation and verification
• Mobility
• Certification

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Whatever the software
Adapt to patients environment and age Human
/device interfaces Device/device
interfaces High bandwidth Embedded
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Certification of devices

• Real life situations are complex and dangerous
• certify on simulationsinformation fusion for
  patient model
• Systems change
• certify incrementally
• certify patches and upgrades
• Future systems will learn or will be
  intelligent
• certify on the fly
• Systems are complex
• Self-certifying components

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Software certification

• Secure
• Reliable
• Apply to analysis and simulations
• Defect tracing
• Upgrades

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Spring meeting

• Vendors
• Search engineersGoogle
• Information storage
• Microsoft
• Kitware (building large open source software
  toolkits)
• High-speed software guys such as Cisco
• Standards folks
• NIST
• FDA
• Research groups
• NASA-digital astronaut
• Digital Human
• Embedded systems/hybrid systems
• ISO 1073