
Introduction to Medical Software
Foundations for Digital Health, Devices, and Diagnostics
Cambridge University Press
Published on 5. May 2022
Book
Hardback
338 pages
978-1-316-51499-3 (ISBN)
Description
Providing a concise and accessible overview of the design, implementation and management of medical software, this textbook will equip students with a solid understanding of critical considerations for both standalone medical software (software as a medical device/SaMD) and software that is integrated into hardware devices. It includes: practical discussion of key regulatory documents and industry standards, and how these translate into concrete considerations for medical software design; detailed coverage of the medical software lifecycle process ; accessible introduction to quality and risk management systems in the context of medical software; succinct coverage of essential topics in data science, machine learning, statistics, cybersecurity, software engineering and healthcare bring readers up-to-speed; six cautionary real-world case studies illustrate the dangers of improper or careless software processes. Accompanied by online resources for instructors, this is the ideal introduction for undergraduate students in biomedical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science, junior software engineers, and digital health entrepreneurs.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 208 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
957 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-316-51499-3 (9781316514993)
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Additional editions

Xenophon Papademetris | Ayesha N. Quraishi | Gregory P. Licholai
Introduction to Medical Software
Foundations for Digital Health, Devices, and Diagnostics
E-Book
04/2022
Cambridge University Press
€60.49
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Persons
Xenophon Papademetris is Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University whose research focuses on biomedical image analysis and software development. He has over twenty years of experience in medical software design.
Author
Yale University, Connecticut
Yale University, Connecticut
Content
Preface; Part 1. Regulatory, Business and Management Background: 1. Introduction to medical software; 2. The FDA and software; 3. Operating within a healthcare system; 4. Quality management systems; 5. Risk management; 6. Taking an idea to market: understanding the product journey; 7. Medical software applications and growth drivers; Part II. Scientific and Technical Background: 8. Mathematical background; 9. Topics in software engineering; Part III. An Example Medical Software Life Cycle Process: 10. The overall process; 11. Identifying user needs; 12. The system requirements specification; 13. The software design document; 14. Software construction and testing and verification; 15. Software validation; 16. Deployment, maintenance and decommissioning; Part IV. Case Studies: 17. Therac-25: software that killed; 18. Mars Climate Orbiter: lost without a trace; 19. Healthcare.gov: the failed launch of a critical webpage; 20. The 2020 Iowa Caucus app: an unreliable app that caused national embarrassment; 21. The Boeing 737-MAX disasters: using software to fix hardware problems; 22. The averted Y2K crisis: successful crisis and risk management; References; Index.