[IGSTK-Developers] Presentation at SDMS

[Luis Ibanez]

Congratulations !,


BTW, I like a lot the introductory text of the workshop:


"Software has become a necessity in almost every aspect of the daily
lives of individuals and organizations, from self-contained applications
to those embedded in various devices and services (mobile phones,
prescription entry systems, medication dispensers, heart pacemakers,
etc). A large proportion of these systems are mission/life-critical.
Among them, medical services are one of most popular services in our
daily life. According to a report from the National Academies Press,
medication errors harm at 1.5 million people a year in United States.
The extra costs for treating drug-related injuries occurring in
hospitals alone conservatively amount to 3.5 billion US dollars a year,
not including lost wages and productivity."...



Safety, safety, safety...



    Luis


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Kevin Gary wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Kevin Cleary asked me to post some of my notes from the IGSTK 
> presentation at the SDMS (Software and Systems for Medical Devices and 
> Services) workshop this past Monday, http://oris.csie.ntu.edu.tw/SMDS07. 
> My notes are below. The presentation itself I can send to anyone 
> interested or post to the Wiki (I don't see an area for our pubs on the 
> Wiki, and the www.igstk.org docs/pubs page is out of date?). The paper 
> is attached as the file is small compared to the prez.
> 
> Notes:
> A worthwhile day; there were a couple relevant talks on safety in 
> medical devices, one by Paul Jones at the FDA that I thought was 
> particularly enlightening. Our presentation was well-received I think, 
> there was some good discussion on open source and Agile development in 
> this context.
> 
> I had lunch with Insup Lee and a couple of the other workshop 
> organizers; they agree that these issues will continue to gain mindshare 
> over time. There was also a program manager (Kristin Tolle) from 
> Microsoft External Research in Biomedical Computing that gave a last 
> minute presentation, and I had a chance to chat with her after. She was 
> very enthusiastic about our presentation and open source. Might want to 
> check in on her RFP's from time to time.
> 
> Cheers,
> K2
> 
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