Phoenix Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor Project
4/10/2005 Meeting Notes


Attendees



Discussion

Status Review

* Wade: Added items to the Bibliography page Sahyoun - Open Source and Fishman's China Inc about how China is using open source because they do not have a legal concept of intellectual property. He discussed the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and various techniques for placing intellectual property in the public domain.

* Germaine: reviewed her Education Rehabilitiation scenario. We emailed it to Chris Adams who will include it in his requirements analysis.

* Bob: Asked if cuff calibration should be done on both arms and if the new techniques are sensitive enough.

* Tom Renner, Dave Skramsted & Dan Glumac: Are considering projects such as the embedded software (local/wearable subsystem), the optoelectric and piezo film blood flow sensors.

* Gerry: Discussed his draft of a patient scenario - Rehabilitation Primary Care scenario. He will email it to Chris.

* Chris: This was a great meeting because we discovered two new requirements: 1) session to session analysis (a short-term trend issue) and 2) Long-term trend analysis (a long-term trend issue).

Next Meeting: At our next meeting on 4/24, we are expecting Ralph Cardinal, Director of Device Engineering at Guidant, to speak on testing in the design phase. Max Cortner, Director of Test Engineering at Guidant, who spoke to us on testing in the manufacturing phase, will accompany him. Specifically, we wanted to ask them:
* What does software need to create for the testers, especially if testing is done before the software exists?
* What does design phase testing mean?
* How should software developers approach testing? Do they need to think in a specific process? Do they need to create a test, eg. test driven development?
* What does it mean to the integrity of the test process if testers are part of the design process? How do they remain separate and 'part of the loyal opposition'?

 

 

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