title: A CMMI-based approach for medical software project life cycle study.
abstract: In terms of medical techniques, Taiwan has gained international recognition in recent years. However, the medical information system industry in Taiwan is still at a developing stage compared with the software industries in other nations. In addition, systematic development processes are indispensable elements of software development. They can help developers increase their productivity and efficiency and also avoid unnecessary risks arising during the development process. Thus, this paper presents an application of Light-Weight Capability Maturity Model Integration (LW-CMMI) to Chang Gung Medical Research Project (CMRP) in the Nuclear medicine field. This application was intended to integrate user requirements, system design and testing of software development processes into three layers (Domain, Concept and Instance) model. Then, expressing in structural System Modeling Language (SysML) diagrams and converts part of the manual effort necessary for project management maintenance into computational effort, for example: (semi-) automatic delivery of traceability management. In this application, it supports establishing artifacts of "requirement specification document", "project execution plan document", "system design document" and "system test document", and can deliver a prototype of lightweight project management tool on the Nuclear Medicine software project. The results of this application can be a reference for other medical institutions in developing medical information systems and support of project management to achieve the aim of patient safety.
authors: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, No. 123, Da-Pei Rd., Niaosong Hsiang, Kaohsiung County 83301 Taiwan, ROC.
authors: Jui-Jen
authors: JJ
authors: Chen
authors: Wu-Chen
authors: WC
authors: Su
authors: Pei-Wen
authors: PW
authors: Wang
authors: Hung-Chi
authors: HC
authors: Yen
keywords: CMMI; Nuclear medicine; Patient safety; Project management; SysML
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