Trustworthy Healthcare Software

Identifier
COMS 5190X
Professor(s)

Last Updated: Spring 2025

  1. Credits and contact hours: 3 credits
  2. Textbook, title, author, and year: Introduction to Medical Software: Foundations for Digital Health, Devices, and Diagnostics, Xenophon Papademtris, Ayesha N. Quraishi, and Gregory P. Licholai, 2022
  3. Other supplemental materials: Journal and conference papers

Specific Course Information

  1. Brief description of the content of the course: Introduction to healthcare software used for health diagnosis or treatment. Focus on software as part of a medical device, the emerging use of software as a medical device, and on mobile healthcare applications.
  2. Prerequisites or co-requisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor
  3. Required, elective, or selected elective? Selective elective

Specific goals for the course

  • Students to be familiar with unique aspects of developing healthcare software.
  • Students are in a position to analyze and evaluate the trustworthiness of healthcare software.

Brief list of topics to be covered

  • Discovering and verifying usability, reliability, and safety requirements
  • Design and verification of trustworthy healthcare software
  • Assurance cases for healthcare software in a regulatory environment