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GSA: a framework for rapid prototyping of smart alarm systems

Authors:

Andrew L. King,

Margaret Fortino-Mullen,

Ana Giannareas,

William Hanson, III,

Nicholas Stevens,

Jonathan Tannen,

Adrian Viesca Trevino,

Insup LeeAuthors Info & Claims

IHI '10: Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium

Pages 487 - 491

https://doi.org/10.1145/1882992.1883069

Published: 11 November 2010 Publication History

Abstract

We describe the Generic Smart Alarm, an architectural framework for the development of decision support modules for a variety of clinical applications. The need to quickly process patient vital signs and detect patient health events arises in many clinical scenarios, from clinical decision support to tele-health systems to home-care applications. The events detected during monitoring can be used as caregiver alarms, as triggers for further downstream processing or logging, or as discrete inputs to decision support systems or physiological closed-loop applications.

We believe that all of these scenarios are similar, and share a common framework of design. In attempting to solve a particular instance of the problem, that of device alarm fatigue due to numerous false alarms, we devised a modular system based around this framework. This modular design allows us to easily customize the framework to address the specific needs of the various applications, and at the same time enables us to perform checking of consistency of the system.

In this paper we discuss potential specific clinical applications of a generic smart alarm framework, present the proposed architecture of such a framework, and motivate the benefits of a generic framework for the development of new smart alarm or clinical decision support systems.

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Index Terms

GSA: a framework for rapid prototyping of smart alarm systems
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Domain specific languages
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Patterns
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Client-server architectures
      2. Software architectures

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IHI '10: Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Health Informatics Symposium

November 2010

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ISBN:9781450300308

DOI:10.1145/1882992

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Cvach M(2012)Monitor Alarm Fatigue: An Integrative ReviewBiomedical Instrumentation & Technology10.2345/0899-8205-46.4.26846:4(268-277)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2012
https://doi.org/10.2345/0899-8205-46.4.268
Insup Lee Sokolsky OSanjian Chen Hatcliff JEunkyoung Jee BaekGyu Kim King AMullen-Fortino MSoojin Park Roederer AVenkatasubramanian K(2012)Challenges and Research Directions in Medical Cyber–Physical SystemsProceedings of the IEEE10.1109/JPROC.2011.2165270100:1(75-90)Online publication date: Jan-2012
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