inf523 - Medical Software Engineering

At the end of the lecture periods

written exam

This Module provides the regulatory requirements of medical software. Focus is on software life cycle methods and approaches, the implementation of combined usability- and risk management processes as well as qualtiy management.

Professional competence
The students:

• Know and use obligatory medical software requirements
• Know methods and approaches to develop security-critical medical software and implement them by example
• Know at least one medical application area and its specific professional, organisational and regulatory requirements

Methodological competence
The students:

• Are able to apply risk management methods of socio-technical systems
• Are able to extend their knowledge of new application areas. They are able to handle the obstacles of normative frameworks and software development.

Social competence
The students:

• Realise the importance of communication during the software development process between developer, customer and user of a successful and secure system. Feedback, request, respectful cooperation and empathy of other disciplines' working processes are of great importance.

Self-competence
The students:

• Realise their responsibilty as a computer scientist and reflect their impact on patients, medical employers and hospitals (corporates)