Title
Safety Case Driven Development for Medical Devices
Abstract
Medical devices are safety-critical systems that must comply with standards during their development process because of their intrinsic potential of producing harms. Although the existing trend of an increasing complexity of medical hardware and software components, very little has been done in order to apply more mature safety practices already present on other industrial scenarios. This paper proposes a methodology to enhance the Model-Based System Engineering MBSE state-of-art practices from the safety perspective, encouraging the use of safety cases and providing guidance on how to show the correspondent traceability for the development artifacts. We illustrate our methodology and its usage in the context of an industrial Automated External Defibrillator AED. We suggest that medical device industry could learn from other domains and adapt its development to take into account the hazards and risks along the development, providing more sophisticated justification, as, for example, the impact of design decisions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-24255-2_14
International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security
Keywords
Field
DocType
Safety case, Medical device, Software development methodology, Automated external defibrillators
Systems engineering,Automated external defibrillator,Computer science,Software development process,Safety case,Component-based software engineering,Reliability engineering,Traceability
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9337
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alejandra Ruiz1458.84
Paulo E. S. Barbosa2235.14
Yang Medeiros300.34
Huáscar Espinoza411614.19