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Includes practical step-by-step guidelines, examples, and lessons-learned
Addresses domains of central importance for the aging society
Bridges cutting-edge research and relevant business and engineering practice
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Healthcare and well-being have captured the attention of established software companies, start-ups, and investors. Software is starting to play a central role for addressing the problems of the aging society and the escalating cost of healthcare services. Enablers of such digital health are a growing number of sensors for sensing the human body and communication infrastructure for remote meetings, data sharing, and messaging. The challenge that lies in front of us is how to effectively make use of these capabilities, for example to empower patients and to free the scarce resources of medical personnel.
Requirements engineering is the process by which the capabilities of a software product are aligned with stakeholder needs and a shared understanding between the stakeholders and development team established. This book provides guide for what to look for and do when inquiring and specifying software that targets healthcare and well-being, helping readers avoid the pitfalls of the highly regulated and sensible healthcare domain are and how they can be overcome.
This book brings together the knowledge of 22 researchers, engineers, lawyers, and CEOs that have experience in the development of digital health solutions. It represents a unique line-up of best practices and recommendations of how to engineer requirements for digital health. In particular the book presents:
· The area of digital health, e-health, and m-health
· Best practice for requirements engineering based on evidence from a large number of projects
· Practical step-by-step guidelines, examples, and lessons-learned for working with laws, regulations, ethical issues, interoperability, user experience, security, and privacy
· How to put these many concerns together for engineering the requirements of a digital health solution and for scaling a digital health product
For anybody who intends to develop software for digital health, this book is an introduction and reference with a wealth of actionable insights. For students interested in understanding how to apply software to healthcare, the text introduces key topics and guides further studies with references to important literature.Editors and Affiliations
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Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden
Samuel A. Fricker
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Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Christoph Thümmler
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Eurescom GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
Anastasius Gavras
About the editors
Prof. Dr. Christoph Thuemmler is the Director for the Centre of Digital Health at Edinburg Napier University
Mr. Anastasius Gavras is the Programme Manager at Eurescom GmbH
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Requirements Engineering for Digital Health
Editors: Samuel A. Fricker, Christoph Thümmler, Anastasius Gavras
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09798-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09797-8Published: 02 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37953-1Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09798-5Published: 14 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 204
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Communications Engineering, Networks, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems