Challenges and Research Directions in Medical Cyber–Physical Systems

Author

Lee, Insup ; Sokolsky, Oleg ; Chen, Sanjian ; Hatcliff, John ; Jee, Eunkyoung ; Kim, BaekGyu ; King, Andrew ; Mullen-Fortino, Margaret ; Park, Soojin ; Roederer, Alexander ; Venkatasubramanian, Krishna K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Volume

100

Issue

1

fYear

2012

Firstpage

75

Lastpage

90

Abstract

Medical cyber-physical systems (MCPS) are life-critical, context-aware, networked systems of medical devices. These systems are increasingly used in hospitals to provide high-quality continuous care for patients. The need to design complex MCPS that are both safe and effective has presented numerous challenges, including achieving high assurance in system software, intoperability, context-aware intelligence, autonomy, security and privacy, and device certifiability. In this paper, we discuss these challenges in developing MCPS, some of our work in addressing them, and several open research issues.

Keywords

medical administrative data processing; open systems; safety-critical software; security of data; autonomy; context-aware intelligence; context-aware system; device certifiability; intoperability; life-critical system; medical cyber-physical systems; networked system; privacy; security; system software assurance; Biomedical equipment; Closed loop systems; Computational modeling; Cyberspace; Medical services; Network topology; Pacemakers; Principal component analysis; Unified modeling language; Closed-loop physiological control; cyber–physical systems (CPSs); design challenges; medical device systems; model-based design;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPROC.2011.2165270

Filename

6051465