The PhysioNet Consortium

PhysioNet was established in 1999 to provide open access via the web to large, growing, and unique collections of recorded physiologic signals and related open source software. It is the only resource of its kind, and it has served over half a million researchers, clinicians, developers, educators, and students worldwide over the past seven years. An active community of users and contributors of data and software relies upon PhysioNet as a source and repository for meticulously characterized signals and rigorously tested software to support many uses, including development and evaluation of medical devices, clinical research, drug studies, and basic science.

The PhysioNet Consortium is an alliance of industry partners established to underwrite a substantial portion of the funding for PhysioNet. By joining the Consortium, members receive these benefits:

• Continued availability and growth of PhysioNet. Members are among the most active users within the PhysioNet commnunity, and thus derive significant benefit from the existence and development of PhysioNet.
• Recognition of their support on a prominently featured sponsors' page on the PhysioNet web site.
• Invitations to send up to three representatives to annual PhysioNet Consortium Workshops. These three-day summer workshops, held on the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA, will give industry participants an opportunity to learn about ongoing and planned activities of PhysioNet, to attend engineering and physiology tutorials, and to receive hands-on practical training in the use of PhysioNet data and software. The workshops will also solicit feedback from consortium members about ways to make PhysioNet even more valuable and relevant to the members. We will develop workshop agendas in collaboration with consortium members and with particular attention to their interests.

The support provided by members of the consortium will be applied to sustain the already considerable value of PhysioBank and PhysioToolkit to the members and to the research community at large. We will seek and develop new collections of physiologic signals and related software, and make them freely available via PhysioNet. We plan to organize new open research challenges annually, with emphasis on topics that will result in contributions of useful algorithms (e.g., detectors, classifiers, measurement techniques, and models) that can stimulate or enable further investigations. Finally, the support of consortium members will allow us to provide uninterrupted access to PhysioNet's unique and valuable collections of physiologic signals and software.

If your company would like to join the PhysioNet Consortium, please write to us for details.

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Updated Wednesday, 01-Nov-2006 16:32:18 EST