Welcome

Welcome to the Simon Project web site.  Simon ( Signal Interpretation and Monitoring) is an ongoing research and development effort at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.  Simon's overall goal is to provide effective computerized medical decision support in critical care through novel collection, analysis, and presentation of physiologic data from bedside medical devices.  Several university organizations are part of this interdisciplinary effort, including:

• Vanderbilt University School of Engineering
  • Department of Biomedical Engineering
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science  

•  Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Division of Trauma
  • Department of Anesthesiology

Past and current sponsors of the project include:

• Philips Medical Systems
• National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health
• Vanderbilt University Graduate School
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Vanderbilt University School of Engineering

The navigation menus at the top and bottom of each page organize this site as follows: 

Architecture:  Simon provides a monitoring architecture suitable for both research and development activities as well as routine clinical use.  This page briefly describes Simon's reference architecture, in terms of communication channels, reliability, extensibility, and scalability.

Trauma ICU System:  Simon currently monitors four beds in Vanderbilt University's level 1 trauma center.  This page illustrates how the Simon architecture has been implemented to support information display, event detection, alert delivery via e-mail and alphanumeric pager, and documentation. 

Publications:  Project team members pursue a variety of research interests, in both medical and technical areas.  This page lists the technical and clinical publications and reports related to the Simon project.

People:  This page introduces current and previous members of the Simon team, and their roles on the project.

Links: This page lists external web sites related to intelligent monitoring, medical informatics, and medical device communication.