Authors:
Silvana Togneri MacMahon
;
Fergal McCaffery
and
Frank Keenan
Affiliation:
Dundalk Institute of Technology & Lero, Ireland
Keyword(s):
IEC 80001-1, ISO/IEC 15504-2 – Process Assessment, Service Management, ISO/IEC 20000-1, TIPA, ITIL, Connected Health, Risk Management.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Data Engineering
;
Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare IT
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
e-Business
;
Electronic Health Records and Standards
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Medical and Nursing Informatics
;
Mobile Technologies
;
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Software Engineering
;
Software Systems in Medicine
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Medical Devices are widely used in patient care for both diagnosis and treatment purposes. Typically, modern medical devices are intended to be networked at their point of use. The incorporation of medical devices opens up new opportunities and new vulnerabilities to patients and medical facilities. In 2010, the first standard to address the risks of incorporating a medical device into an IT network was published in the form of IEC 80001-1. Currently no method exists to allow responsible organisations - entities that operate and maintain a network that incorporates a medical device- to assess themselves against this standard. This paper discusses the how healthcare providers can be assessed against IEC 80001-1. This paper discusses the work carried out to date to develop a Process Reference Model and future work to allow this Process Reference Model to be extended to form a Process Assessment Model is also presented within this paper.