Integrating information technology to deliver safer healthcare has been a major challenge owing to the fact that much of the subsequent response to that challenge has focused on increasing the capabilities of enterprise hospital and clinical information systems—for example, implementing order-entry systems to check for drug allergies when writing prescriptions. But IT and patient care also come together at the bedside in the medical equipment and instrumentation systems used to deliver direct patient care—for example, smart infusion pumps that help ensure that the right dose of the right drug is administered to the right patient.
Perennials skills and capability can touch on both types of systems, while focusing primarily on the application of software and systems engineering to software based medical devices and device systems used at the bedside.
