Collaborative Research: Process-Centered, Analysis-driven System Development Applied to Human-Intensive Medical Processes

NSF提案0820198/0820138标题：应用于人力密集型医疗过程的以过程为中心、分析驱动的系统开发PI：洛里克拉克，菲利普亨尼曼，乔治阿夫鲁宁，伊丽莎白亨尼曼，和莱昂奥斯特韦尔该项目提出了一种新的方法来开发人力密集型系统，其中人类参与者，硬件设备和应用软件系统之间的协调是在一个可执行文件中指定的，过程定义语言过程定义经过严格的分析，以检测缺陷并评估建议的改进。然后，这些经过验证的过程定义可以用于驱动模拟和培训过程参与者。所提出的方法是通过开发一个过程支持环境，然后用于定义和分析医疗过程进行评估。医疗过程提供了一个特别好的评估领域，因为它们是人力密集型的，涉及各种软件应用程序和硬件设备，并且是安全关键和容易出错的。分离和严格分析复杂的、人力密集型系统的协调方面代表了当前开发实践的范式转变。这种方法为人类密集型系统的工程设计提供了强大的技术和方法基础，从而使系统具有可扩展性，可理解性，并能够增强人类的功效和控制力。最后，这种以过程为中心的方法有可能提高医疗质量并降低医疗成本。

NSF Proposals 0820198/0820138Title: Process-Centered, Analysis-Driven System Development Applied to Human-Intensive Medical ProcessesPIs: Lori Clarke, Philip Henneman, George Avrunin, Elizabeth Henneman, and Leon OsterweilThis project presents a new approach to developing human-intensive systems in which the coordination among human participants, hardware devices, and application software systems are specified in an executable, process-definition language. Process definitions are subjected to rigorous analysis in order to detect defects and evaluate proposed improvements. Such validated process definitions can then be used to drive simulations and train process participants. The proposed approach is to be evaluated by developing a process support environment that is then used to define and analyze medical processes. Medical processes provide a particularly good evaluation domain as they are human-intensive, involve diverse software applications and hardware devices, and are both safety critical and error prone. Separating and rigorously analyzing the coordination aspects of complex, human-intensive systems represent a paradigm shift from current development practices. This approach provides a strong technical and methodological basis for the engineering of human-intensive systems, leading to systems that are scalable, understandable, and able to amplify human efficacy and control. Finally, this process-centered approach has the potential to improve the quality and reduce the cost of medical care.