Issues arising from medical system's failure

Authors:
Andrew Blyth
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Studies, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, CF37 1DL, UK
Venue:
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Year:
1997

Citing 5
Cited 0

The use of artificial intelligence by the U.S. Navy: case study of a failure

AI Magazine
An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents

Computer
Safeware: system safety and computers

Safeware: system safety and computers
Computer related risks

Computer related risks
Newstrack

Communications of the ACM

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

As more health-care providers adopt and utilise information technology in the treatment of there patients, so the number of system failures increases. Analysis of these failures shows us that these systems are failing for a variety of technical and social reason. The question that we are forced to ask is Why? In this paper I seek to highlight some of the problems that are currently facing developers and users of medical computing systems.