MacMahon, Silvana Togneri ORCID: 0000-0003-0179-2436, McCaffery, Fergal and Keenan, Frank (2015) Development of the MedITNet assessment method: enabling healthcare delivery organisation self assessment against IEC 80001-1. In: The First International Conference on Fundamentals and Advances in Software Systems Integration FASSI 2015, 23-28 Aug 2015, Venice, Italy. ISBN 9781510811829
Abstract
The provision of care to patients has moved away
from episodic acute care due to the increase in chronic
diseases such as diabetes. This has changed the relationship
between the patient and the care team. The management of
chronic disease requires the use of information technology
including networked medical devices to facilitate the
establishment of an ongoing relationship between the patient
and care team. The use of networked medical devices can
provide benefits to patients such as reduced cost of care,
reductions in adverse events and improved care through the
provision of accurate and up-to-date information. However,
the placement of a medical device onto an IT network can
lead to risks to the device. These risks may lead to incorrect
or degraded performance of the device impacting patient
care and negating the potential benefits of using the device.
While, IEC 80001-1 was developed to assist Healthcare
Delivery Organisations (HDOs) in addressing these risks,
HDOs may struggle in implementing the requirements of the
standard. This paper discusses the development of an
Assessment Method which forms part of MedITNet, an
assessment framework which can be used by HDOs to assist
them in implementing the requirements of the standard by
providing a flexible, consistent and repeatable approach to
assessing the capability of their risk management processes
relating to networked medical devices. The assessment
highlights weaknesses in the process and can be used as a
foundation to improve these processes.
Metadata
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Conference |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Risk Management; Medical IT Networks; IEC 80001-1; MedITNet; Assessment Framework; Assessment Method. |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Information technology |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing Research Institutes and Centres > Lero: The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre |
Publisher: | International Academy, Research, and Industry Association (IARIA) |
Funders: | Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator Programme, grant number 08/IN.1/I2030, Lero Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software grant no. 10/CE/I1855 & 13/RC/20194. |
ID Code: | 28402 |
Deposited On: | 19 Jun 2023 15:12 by Silvana Macmahon . Last Modified 20 Jun 2023 12:40 |
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