Improving Safety in Medical Devices and Systems

Thimbleby, Harold

doi:10.1109/ichi.2013.91

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“…This is a major concern when users want to share their self-curated data with health care professionals. The problems that arise from badly validated and designed data input forms have been studied extensively, and design guidelines have been formulated, but many app developers (and many medical device manufacturers) still fail to adhere to them [20].…”

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On the Privacy, Security and Safety of Blood Pressure and Diabetes Apps

Knorr

Aspinall

Wolters

2015

ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection

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Abstract. Mobile health (mHealth) apps are an ideal tool for monitoring and tracking long-term health conditions. In this paper, we examine whether mHealth apps succeed in ensuring the privacy, security, and safety of the health data entrusted to them. We investigate 154 apps from Android app stores using both automatic code and metadata analysis and a manual analysis of functionality and data leakage. Our study focuses on hypertension and diabetes, two common health conditions that require careful tracking of personal health data. We find that many apps do not provide privacy policies or safe communications, are implemented in an insecure fashion, fail basic input validation tests and often have overall low code quality which suggests additional security and safety risks. We conclude with recommendations for App Stores, App developers, and end users.

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On the Privacy, Security and Safety of Blood Pressure and Diabetes Apps

Knorr

Aspinall

Wolters

2015

ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection

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“…This result may be used by manufacturers (who wish to design safer systems), to procurers (who wish to buy safer systems), and to patients (who wish to have safer treatment). In the long run, one could imagine that assessments of safety would be displayed prominently on devices [9], thus increasing awareness and hence would encourage more appropriate choices of designs for the uses to which they may be put.…”

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Triangulating empirical and analytic techniques for improving number entry user interfaces

Cauchi

Oladimeji

Niezen

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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Empirical methods and analytic methods have been used independently to analyse and improve number entry system designs. This paper identifies key differences in exploring number entry errors combining laboratory studies and analytic methods and discusses the implications of triangulating methods to more thoroughly analyse safety critical design.Additionally, a previously presented analytic method used to analyse number entry interfaces is generalised to analyse more types of number entry systems. This paper takes "number entry" to mean interactively entering a numeric value, as opposed to entering a numeric identifier such as a phone number or ISBN. Many applications of number entry are safety critical, and this paper is particularly motivated by user interfaces in healthcare, for instance for specifying drug dosage.

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“…It was explained that the patients were given the convenience of being able to find information, discuss, consult without having to come to the location and be able to register with a health unit such as a clinic or hospital. The role of information technology makes stakeholders in the health business increasingly limitless, this has a very good impact on health workers and business owners who can use it (Thimbleby, 2013). In European countries, the use of information technology can reduce the administrative costs of healthcare providers by 35 percent and provide increased comfort and satisfaction for patients (Deloitte, 2015).…”

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Clinic-Q Medical and Dental Development Business Strategy With Sustainable Development Perspective

Hidayati¹,

Firdaus²,

Sanim³

2019

JCS

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This research is research related to the formation of strategy development in a clinic. The Discussion is aimed at the theme of the clinical business development strategy. In addition, the discussion will use a sustainable business development perspective. Data collected is sourced from experts with different expertise. Assessing experts were asked to provide a questionnaire assessment related to the internal environment and the external environment of the clinic. Financial statements used are from 2015 to 2017. Assessment results from experts are then adjusted to the IE Matrix to obtain the company's strategy formulation. After obtaining the strategy formulation, the best strategy for the clinic was conducted using the QSPM approach. Results of the study show that the position of the clinic-Q Medical & Dental is in quadrant 1 which means the clinic is recommended for development. In addition, based on the assessment of QSPM, it is found that the company can implement product development, integration and market penetration. On the other hand, clinics are also advised to continue to increase their role in protecting the environment.

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Improving Safety in Medical Devices and Systems

Cited by 19 publications

References 27 publications

On the Privacy, Security and Safety of Blood Pressure and Diabetes Apps

On the Privacy, Security and Safety of Blood Pressure and Diabetes Apps

Triangulating empirical and analytic techniques for improving number entry user interfaces

Clinic-Q Medical and Dental Development Business Strategy With Sustainable Development Perspective

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