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<p><strong>1<sup>st</sup> International Workshop on Processes for Software-as-a-Medical Device (ProSaaMD)</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><em>Co-located with International Conference on Software and System Process (ICSSP) 2015</em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>August 24th 2015, Tallinn, Estonia (<a href="https://prosaamd.wordpress.com/"><span style="font-weight:normal">https://prosaamd.wordpress.com/</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></strong></p>
<p>Organizers: Noel Carroll & Ita Richardson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>Scope</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Modern service systems consist of a complex processes which combine legacy, bespoke, COTS, open source, licensed, and user-developed systems to cater for rapidly changing business needs. In recent years, the healthcare industry have acknowledged the benefits
of efficient service systems enjoyed within the business world and identify significant opportunity in developing new system and software processes to enhance healthcare delivery through higher quality and safer practices. This has led to the rise in software
development practices in medical device and healthcare management processes. In order to overcome or avoid the potential of negative effects from software practice in the medical technology (MedTech) and healthcare sector, we must re-examine software development
and compliance processes. The latest trends of developing and maintaining emerging and evolving software systems has also led to new opportunities and challenges regarding the development processes, quality management, decision support, process analytics,
management and innovation of medical device software.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The Processes for Software-as-a-Medical Device (ProSaaMD) workshop is seeking papers which address state-of-the-art research and best-practice which support healthcare software innovation, process improvement and quality management in medical devices, healthcare
operations and well-being.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>Workshop Topics</strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Specific areas of interest related to healthcare software and medical device processes and regulations/standards (but not limited to):<o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type="disc">
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Engineering Healthcare using Software-as-a-Medical Device<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Software Processes for Medical Device and Connected Health<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Healthcare Software Process Models<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Continuous Process Improvement in Medical Data Device and Healthcare Quality Management<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Healthcare Software Quality Management<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Implementation of EU Healthcare Quality Software Standards<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Medical Device Regulation Conformity and Intelligence<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Approaches towards Technical and Management Processes in Healthcare Quality<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Tension/Challenges between Healthcare Innovation and Regulation of Software Process<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Patient Involvement in the Development of Quality Connected Health processes<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Problems and Solutions to Measure the Impact of Connected Health interventions<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Case studies: Software-as-a-Medical Device (SaaMD)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Using Software Process to Support Healthcare Connectedness<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
Modelling Healthcare Connectedness<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">ProSaaMD offers researchers an opportunity to present state-of-the-art research on healthcare systems. It provides a platform to discuss whether software processes must be more responsive to healthcare needs to continuously provide value
in-line with growing healthcare costs. Of particular interests in ProSaaMD, participants will be the ability to examine and discuss how software regulations and standards impact on software development across the healthcare sector. From a business context,
the ProSaaMD also invites researchers to examine the complexity of aligning healthcare systems and healthcare goals and processes and offers participants an opportunity to discuss state-of-the art techniques to model healthcare complexity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The workshop web-page can be found at: <a href="https://prosaamd.wordpress.com/">
https://prosaamd.wordpress.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Dr. Noel Carroll<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Research Fellow (Data Lead)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Process Quality Research Group
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre
</span><span style="color:#17365D;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE"><a href="http://www.lero.ie/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.lero.ie</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#17365D;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">ARCH - Applied Research for Connected Health Technology Centre
</span><span style="color:#17365D;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE"><a href="http://www.arch.ie/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.arch.ie</span></a></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">Department of Computer Science & Information Systems
</span><span style="color:#17365D;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE"><a href="http://www.csis.ul.ie/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.csis.ul.ie</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">University of Limerick, Ireland
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</span><span style="color:#17365D;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE"><a href="http://noel-carroll.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://noel-carroll.com/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#548DD4;mso-fareast-language:EN-IE">
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