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Experiences of Engineering Grid-Based Medical Software
Objectives: Grid-based technologies are emerging as potential solutions for
managing and collaborating distributed resources in the biomedical domain. Few
examples exist, however, of successful implementations of Grid-enabled medical
systems and even fewer have been deployed for evaluation in practice. The
objective of this paper is to evaluate the use in clinical practice of a
Grid-based imaging prototype and to establish directions for engineering future
medical Grid developments and their subsequent deployment. Method: The
MammoGrid project has deployed a prototype system for clinicians using the Grid
as its information infrastructure. To assist in the specification of the system
requirements (and for the first time in healthgrid applications), use-case
modelling has been carried out in close collaboration with clinicians and
radiologists who had no prior experience of this modelling technique. A
critical qualitative and, where possible, quantitative analysis of the
MammoGrid prototype is presented leading to a set of recommendations from the
delivery of the first deployed Grid-based medical imaging application. Results:
We report critically on the application of software engineering techniques in
the specification and implementation of the MammoGrid project and show that
use-case modelling is a suitable vehicle for representing medical requirements
and for communicating effectively with the clinical community. This paper also
discusses the practical advantages and limitations of applying the Grid to
real-life clinical applications and presents the consequent lessons learned.Comment: 18 pages, 2 tables, 5 figures. In press International Journal of
Medical Informatics. Elsevier publisher
Reengineering Biomedical Engineering Curricula: A New Product Development Approach
Product development engineers in medical industries have created design control procedures to ensure high quality designs that are as error-free as possible. The reason is simple; companies must adhere to certain engineering and manufacturing best practices in order to obtain certification of their devices for sale in the US and abroad. We describe here an ongoing effort to apply these industrial best practices to the design and implementation of a novel sequence of undergraduate biomedical computing courses within the Department of Bio-medical Engineering at Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). We have tightly integrated our industrial advisory board into this design and development effort. The board has contributed to significantly to the orderly generation of curricular requirements, the development of course implementation designs and the evaluation of these designs per requirements
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Co-innovation: the future of telemedicine in developing countries
Telemedicine which has been widely adopted in developed countries to reach all its citizens irrespective of their location is only being used for education purposes or disaster relief in developing countries. Since developing countries already suffer inadequate healthcare provision especially in remote areas, it would be essential to implement telemedicine practices for daily clinical uses rather than education use. This research argues that to understand the future of telemedicine in developing countries, both well-established technology innovations adoption factors as well as co-innovation factors should be addressed. In the context of healthcare provision, we propose a conceptual framework that integrates the healthcare resources and the organisational affiliations in co-innovation
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