DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPEN-SOURCE ARRHYTHMIA DETECTOR

美国有60多家不同的公司生产通过心电图检测心律失常的医疗设备。几乎所有这些公司都在内部开发自己的软件。这种冗余软件开发的成本是每年花费在这些设备上的超过8亿美元的主要贡献者。此外，这种冗余的软件开发导致不同公司生产的设备的质量差异很大。我们将开发一套心律失常检测软件，我们将以源代码的形式提供。我们将开发这个软件是高度模块化的，允许易于修改。我们将鼓励该软件的用户贡献改进。心律失常检测的开源软件的可用性将降低整个行业的软件开发成本，降低这些医疗设备对医疗保健系统的成本，并提高这些设备的整体市场质量。建议的商业应用：我们的意图是使我们的软件以很少或免费的方式提供。我们将通过与我们的开源软件相关的咨询和软件开发合同为我们的公司创造收入。

Over sixty different companies in the U.S. produce medical devices that detect arrhythmias from ECGs. Nearly all these companies develop their own software in house. The cost of this redundant software development is a major contributor to the over $800 million that is spent each year for these devices. Additionally, this redundant software development results in significant quality variation for devices produced by different companies. We will develop a suite of arrhythmia detection software that we will make available in source code form. We will develop this software to be highly modular, allowing easy modification. We will encourage users of this software to contribute improvements. The availability of open source software for arrhythmia detection will lower industry wide software development costs, lowering the cost of these medical devices to the healthcare system, and improve overall market quality of these devices. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: It is our intention to make our software available at little or no charge. We will generate income for our company through consulting and software development contracts related to our open source software.