Health care professional workstation: software system construction using DSSA scenario-based engineering process

Hufnagel, Stephen P.; Harbison, Karan; Silva, John; Mettala, Erik

doi:10.1016/0020-7101(94)90038-8

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“…The consortia followed what might be considered to be a specific implementation of usercentered systems engineering known as the scenario-based engineering process (SEP) [2,3]. Situations for using the emergency medical information system components were described, scripted, and subsequently validated by medical domain experts to ensure that they were realistic and comprehensively addressed the kinds of problems encountered by medical providers.…”

Section: Scenario-based Engineering Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Computer-human interface solutions for emergency medical care

Holzman

1999

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Jane Nelson ©1997 Artville, LLCQ Quality medical care depends on prompt, accurate recording, communication, and retrieval of patient data and medical logistics information. In emergency medicine, such information can make the difference between life and death because it enables better planning and scheduling of medical resources. A hospital can assemble the appropriate team of specialists and configuration of equipment so that they are ready as soon as the patient arrives if medical providers in the field inform the hospital of the patient's condition when they first encounter the patient.

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Section: Scenario-based Engineering Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Computer-human interface solutions for emergency medical care

Holzman

1999

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“…Development is facilitated if the workstation software is initially conceived in a modular client/server design in which each component conforms to a normalized interface protocol [9,10,30]. The Domain-Specific Software Architecture (DSSA) methodology is an example of producing specifications that permit the assembly of specialized components for a particular domain [31].…”

Section: Analysis and Design Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multimedia Workstations: Electronic Assistants for HealthCare Professionals

Degoulet¹,

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Safran³

1996

Yearb Med Inform

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The increasing costs of health care and the economic reality has produced an interesting paradox for the health professional to perform more clinical work with fewer support personnel. Moreover, an explosion of the knowledge-base that underlies sound clinical care not only makes effective time management critical, but also knowledge management compelling. A multimedia workstation is an electronic assistant for the busy health professional that can help with administrative tasks and give access to clinical information and knowledge networks. The multimedia nature of processed information reflects an evolution of medical technologies that involve more and more complex objects such as video sequences or digitized signals. Analysis of the 445 Medline-indexed publications for the January 1991 to December 1994 period, that included the word “workstation” either in their title or in their abstract, helps in refining objectives and challenges both for health professionals and decision makers. From an engineering perspective, development of a workstation requires the integration into the same environments of tools to localize, access, manipulate and communicate the required information. The long-term goal is to establish an easy access in a collaborative working environment that gives the end-user the feeling of a single virtual health enterprise, driven by an integrated computer system when the information system relies on a set of heterogeneous and geographically distributed components. Consequences in terms of migration from traditional client/server architectures to more client/network architectures are considered.

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“…Building complex intelligent systems, ~uch as the NG-HPW, demands systems-engineering processes which go beyond typical "waterfall", spiral, or object-oriented models of system development [2]. A new approach, called domain-specific systems architecture (DSSA), attempts to overcome limitations of previous methods by defining system-independent objects and formally defined messages among those objects [3]. These high-level system objects (also called components) consist of aggregated roles and responsibilities which could include intelligent decision-making behavi~rs.…”

Section: Advanced Systems Engineeringmentioning

confidence: 99%