Development of HCI management software for automatic medical analyzers

Automatic medical analyzer (AMA) systems such as Bio-chemical analyzer and Hematology analyzer are generally composed of management software and control systems, as in layered or distributed framework, which simplifies the design process and makes them more convenient to be maintained and operated. Users interact with the analyzer through the management software system and a user friendly human-computer interface, for human-computer interaction (HCI). In this paper, the development of management software for AMAs is presented, including functional requirements, platforms for development and operation, as well as method for development and application design. Two typical software systems developed respectively for PC/Windows and Embedded systems under embedded operating system (Embedded OS) are given in detail for demonstration. The former OS is suitable for software that acquires a plenty of graphics processing tasks and comes to excellent visual effects, with latter Embedded OS for compact, simple interface with better real-time and stability in instrumentation systems. In addition, graphic user interface (GUI) toolkits are introduced to promote development efficiency of the management software. In the end, two specific developing methods are proposed for actual cases: one using MFC on PC/Windows, the other utilizing MiniGUI on Embedded OS.