title: Medical software management: a failure analysis approach for maintenance and safety plan.
abstract: Medical software management represents one of the biggest future challenge in healthcare. Technology level is actually waiting for appropriate normative and regulatory support by including maintenance, assistance and safety. This paper aims to highlight the critical aspects in medical software management and specifically to provide a methodology in order to support decision makers responsible for medical software assistance in health structures. The results show how medical software effectiveness depends on technical, organizational and clinical aspects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronics and Telecommunications - University of Florence, Via Santa Marta 3 50039-Florence, Italy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Miniati
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dori
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Iadanza
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Medici
mesh_terms: D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D004864:Equipment and Supplies / Q000592:standards*; D008283:Maintenance; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D012984:Software / Q000592:standards*