Healthcare Systems Architecture
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Within the Healthcare Solutions (HS) cluster, innovative architectural solutions for a wide range of medical systems are developed.
The HCS cluster works on a number of challenges in software and architecture on behalf of Philips Medical Systems. The first challenge addresses the issue: "How to significantly decrease (a factor 3 in 3 years) the lead-time of clinical application development? We explore the promising avenue of the use of MDD (Model Driven Development) in combination with the use of Agile methods. The second challenge is to achieve large scale reuse accross multiple business groups and we are exploiting our knowhow of architecting for variability accross multiple views and multiple organisation, using the BAPO/CAFCR approach. The key application area are medical workspots. The third challenge is to make optimal use of "on-board" computing resources in order to develop optimal performant systems. The fourth challenge is the exploitation of emerging GRID technologies for the ever growing computing and data needs in healthcare. The fifth challenge adresses the issue of evolvability of medical system architectures: easier evolution while maintaining throughput, reliability, safety, and ease of use. |
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