Dr. Halpern has extensive experience working with technology and supply venders through his involvement in ICU design and his chairmanships of hospital-wide Clinical Device, Equipment, Commodity and Product committees, both at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York and the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York. He has collaborated with informatics and point of care testing companies, including Cardiopulmonary Corp., Milford, CT, CliniComp International, Inc., San Diego, CA, Instrumentation Laboratory, Bedford, MA, Medical Automation Systems, Charlottesville, VA, and Global Care Quest, Aliso Viejo, CA. He has worked with multiple vendors since 1985, including manufacturers of ICU beds, infusion pumps, head boards and mobile articulating arms, flooring, connectivity, imaging, E-medical record and point of care testing, and all types of disposable ICU supplies.