PRISMPulmonary Research Institute for Systems & Metrics

Voluntary · Non-commercial · Neutral

Respiratory device measurement, in the open.

PRISM is an independent precompetitive forum where respiratory-care leaders come together for the greater good of global respiratory care — building open, non-binding guidance on how device performance is measured, tested, and reported.

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Bias-flow & secretion-movement metrics Airway clearance bench testing CPAP & ventilation test systems Waveform analytics & reporting formats Test lung & airway simulator selection Calibration, uncertainty & data quality Publication & peer review Bias-flow & secretion-movement metrics Airway clearance bench testing CPAP & ventilation test systems Waveform analytics & reporting formats Test lung & airway simulator selection Calibration, uncertainty & data quality Publication & peer review

Positioning

A precompetitive forum — by design

PRISM is a precompetitive collaboration on respiratory device measurement — in the model of MDIC, C-Path and the Pistoia Alliance. Open methods, never endorsements.

What PRISM is

  • A voluntary, non-commercial technical forum
  • Precompetitive collaboration in the tradition of MDIC and C-Path
  • A publisher of open, non-binding guidance
  • A consensus-building community of individuals

What PRISM is not

  • Not a regulator or certification body
  • Not an accredited testing laboratory
  • Not a route to product endorsement or ranking
  • Not a legally constituted consortium with corporate members

How PRISM works →

Why PRISM

Shared methods for a fragmented problem

Open methods

Bench testing, waveform analysis, calibration and uncertainty — documented transparently so results can be understood and reproduced across the field.

Neutral forum

No product endorsements, no commercial rankings, no preferential treatment. Conflicts of interest and sponsor support are disclosed openly on everything we publish.

Practical guidance

Reporting templates, test-method discussions and consensus notes you can actually use — non-binding, versioned, and free for non-commercial technical benefit.

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Technical topics in scope
2026
Founding cohort
100%
Publications with COI & sponsor disclosure
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Product endorsements — by design
Transparent by default Conflict-of-interest disclosed Non-commercial Members participate as individuals

Founding phase · 2026

Be part of the evolution in respiratory care

PRISM is in its founding moment. The methods agreed by these first working groups will set how respiratory device performance is measured — and how those results are reported and compared — for the next decade of the field.

  • Shape the methods themselves. First-cohort contributors author the consensus notes everyone after will cite.
  • Small group, outsized influence. Each working group is forming now — a handful of contributors per group, by design.
  • There is no second founding. Once the initial body of work lands, PRISM becomes about adding to an established record rather than defining one.
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