Title
Architectural specification for infusion pumps and realization towards safety technological trends
Abstract
According to the Food and Drug Administration, infusion pumps are considered nowadays the most safety-critical medical device due to the nature of their operations and associated risks. The design of these devices is still an open question and several improvement initiatives are under research. However the released specifications of such systems are not yet adapted to the current state-of-art systems architectural developments. For example, in our regulatory research, we were not able to mention any project meeting the views and viewpoints patterns for specification and documentation of system and software architectures during the engineering process. This paper proposes a functional specification of an architecture for infusion pumps that can be realized through several technological trends for these products in order to improve safety. Therefore, we validate our specification by developing a prototype of an infusion pump that can be programmed through data retrieved from a webservice using a mobile application as a remote control and changing the infusion parameters according to accuracy properties as a multi-channel device. Thus, the main contribution of this paper can be presented as a distributed architecture for this sort of device, allowing early integration with Electronic Health Records and Patient Health Records for embedded systems domain implying in risk reductions during the programming activity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/MeMeA.2014.6860036
Medical Measurements and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Web services,biomedical engineering,biomedical equipment,electronic health records,information retrieval,medical computing,mobile computing,system documentation,Electronic Health Records,Food and Drug Administration,Patient Health Records,accuracy properties,architectural developments,architectural specification,associated risks,data retrieval,device design,distributed architecture,embedded systems,engineering process,functional specification,infusion parameters,infusion pumps,mobile application,multichannel device,programming activity,project meeting,regulatory research,remote control,risk reductions,safety technological trends,safety-critical medical device,software architectures,system documentation,system specification,viewpoint patterns,web service,Distributed Systems Architecture,Functional Viewpoint,Infusion Pumps,Safety
Architecture,Remote control,Systems engineering,Viewpoints,Computer science,Software,Engineering design process,Web service,Documentation,Functional specification
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4799-2920-7
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6