Net4Care: towards a mission-critical software ecosystem

TY - GEN

T1 - Net4Care

T2 - 2012 Joint Working Conference on Software Architecture & 6th European Conference on Software Architecture

AU - Christensen, Henrik Bærbak

AU - Hansen, Klaus Marius

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - The demographics of the western world is changing: people are getting older and as a partial consequence get an increasing number of chronic diseases such as diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and coronary disease. At the same time, healthcare systems are stressed for resources, health centers are getting larger and more distributed, and the number of healthcare professionals does not follow the trend in chronic diseases. All of this leads to a need for telemedical and mobile health applications. In a Danish context, these applications are often developed through local (innovative) initiatives with little regards for national and global (standardization) initiatives. A reason for this discrepancy is that the software architecture for national (and global) systems and standards are hard to understand, hard to develop systems based on, and hard to deploy. To counter this, we propose a software ecosystem approach for telemedicine applications, providing a framework, Net4Care, encapsulating national/global design decisions with respect to standardization while allowing for local innovation. This paper presents an analysis of existing systems, of requirements for a software ecosystem for telemedicine, and a summary of initial design decisions for the Net4Care framework.

AB - The demographics of the western world is changing: people are getting older and as a partial consequence get an increasing number of chronic diseases such as diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and coronary disease. At the same time, healthcare systems are stressed for resources, health centers are getting larger and more distributed, and the number of healthcare professionals does not follow the trend in chronic diseases. All of this leads to a need for telemedical and mobile health applications. In a Danish context, these applications are often developed through local (innovative) initiatives with little regards for national and global (standardization) initiatives. A reason for this discrepancy is that the software architecture for national (and global) systems and standards are hard to understand, hard to develop systems based on, and hard to deploy. To counter this, we propose a software ecosystem approach for telemedicine applications, providing a framework, Net4Care, encapsulating national/global design decisions with respect to standardization while allowing for local innovation. This paper presents an analysis of existing systems, of requirements for a software ecosystem for telemedicine, and a summary of initial design decisions for the Net4Care framework.

KW - diseases

KW - health care

KW - safety-critical software

KW - software architecture

KW - telemedicine

KW - COPD

KW - Danish context

KW - Net4Care

KW - chronic disease

KW - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

KW - coronary disease

KW - diabetes

KW - global design decision

KW - healthcare system

KW - mission-critical software ecosystem

KW - mobile health application

KW - national design decision

KW - telemedical application

KW - Diseases

KW - Ecosystems

KW - Mission critical systems

KW - Software

KW - Standards

KW - Telemedicine

KW - Software architecture

KW - Software ecosystems

U2 - 10.1109/WICSA-ECSA.212.34

DO - 10.1109/WICSA-ECSA.212.34

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-4673-2809-8

SP - 224

EP - 228

BT - 2012 Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) and European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA)

A2 - Ali Babar, M.

A2 - Cuesta, C.

A2 - Savolainen, J.

A2 - Männistö, T.

PB - IEEE

Y2 - 20 August 2012 through 24 August 2012

ER -