For several years, researchers in the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), and the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP), have been building the momentum for establishing a new collaborative center to unite the MIT research community with the medical community and the microelectronics and medical device industries. The desired end goal is to create a new paradigm for medical care from concept to delivery. In the process, this effort is adding to the momentum to establish Boston as the “Silicon Valley of medical electronic systems.”