DocumentCode :
1973770
Title :
Assessment of Web-based information needs for medical device design
Author :
Shen, Christopher T. ; Tsai, Mark C. ; Yock, Paul ; Melmon, Kenneth L.
Author_Institution :
Health Inf. Network for Educ., Stanford Univ., CA, USA
Volume :
3
fYear :
1999
fDate :
10-13 Nov. 1999
Abstract :
Medical device development involves interdisciplinary knowledge of engineering and the life sciences. In order to maintain a competitive advantage in the medical device industry, design engineers require extensive and detailed knowledge of engineering and biomedical technology. This underscores the need for continual self-education with the most current technical information. Inadequate access to biomedical information during the design process may have detrimental effects to the designer, leading to critical design delays and even failure to execute design projects. The authors describe the Stanford Health Information Network for Education (SHINE), an integrated Web-based medical information resource that provides instant access to a variety of online biomedical information resources. Users have the means to engage in self-initiated research via an interface enabling simultaneous searches across multiple heterogeneous distributed information databases. Medical device engineers may benefit from accessing such a system that promotes both self-learning and ready access to biomedical information.
Keywords :
biomedical education; biomedical equipment; computer aided instruction; continuing education; design engineering; engineering education; information needs; information resources; Web-based information needs; biomedical information access; continual self-education; design engineers; heterogeneous distributed information databases; interdisciplinary knowledge; medical device design; medical device industry; online biomedical information resources; Biomedical engineering; Costs; Decision making; Design engineering; Information resources; Information retrieval; Knowledge engineering; Maintenance engineering; Process design; Software libraries;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1999. FIE '99. 29th Annual
Conference_Location :
San Juan, Puerto Rico
ISSN :
0190-5848
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5643-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1999.840452
Filename :
840452
Link To Document :
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