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Over the last several years, software engineering (SE) has given birth to several communities and venues related to research on SE in the context of health care systems. By and large, the interest in this topic has been spurred by alarming failures of ...

Human beings make errors and that is nothing that we can avoid completely. We can however lower the risk of people doing wrong in situations where, for example, medical devices are used. The overall objective of the research presented in this paper is ...

Through the use of semi structured interviews with medical device software organizations it emerged that medical device software organizations are experiencing difficulties when following plan driven Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC), particularly ...

The vision of PolicyForge.org is that it becomes an open repository for privacy policies at local, state and national level; provides collaboration services for discussing, interpreting, and tracking policies; and by embedding formal policy models with ...

Medical device requirements often depend on the healthcare processes in which the device is to be used. Since such processes may be complex, critical requirements may be specified inaccurately, or even missed altogether. We are investigating an ...

The dynamic nature of the medical domain is driving a need for continuous innovation and improvement in techniques for developing and assuring medical devices. Unfortunately, research in academia and communication between academics, industrial engineers,...

Information models used in the healthcare domain tend to be complex, in part because they were designed to be as flexible and generic as possible. This complexity presents a steep learning curve for implementers, which can lead to partial or poorly-...

The need for high-quality models is increasingly recognized for driving and documenting complex medical processes such as cancer therapies. A medical environment for such processes has to deal with a great multiplicity of dimensions such as different ...

In regulated domains such as finance and health care, failure to comply with regulation can lead to financial, civil and criminal penalties. While systems vary from organization to organization, regulations apply across organizations. We propose the use ...

Medical errors are a major cause of unnecessary suffering and even death. To address this problem, we are investigating an approach for automatically detecting when an executing process deviates from a set of recommended ways to perform that process. ...

Patient wait times and care service times are key performance measures for care processes in hospitals. Managing the quality of care delivered by these processes in real-time is challenging. A key challenge is to correlate source medical events to infer ...

This paper proposes using resource-aware, discrete-event simulation to measure the effects of resource scheduling in hospital emergency departments. Determining staffing and resource allocation is a complex constraint-optimization problem that has ...

In this work, it is shown that by incorporating smartphone-based health/behavior interventions, people can be made in-charge of their own lifestyles and small but incremental changes can be achieved in their behavior which could lead to the prevention ...

The philosophy and architecture of a novel mobile application to support maternal health are presented in this paper. A deployment study presents evidence on the benefits derived by the use of mobile devices for treatment adherence and compliance and ...

Improving care processes in healthcare institutions relies on effectively monitoring and making timely decisions for improving patient experience. Business Intelligence solutions have proven to be effective for monitoring processes in other industries. ...