XIII. Hospital Information Systems: G. Planning and Managing the Introduction of a Hospital Information System: Application of Department of Defense Software Management Techniques to Medical Software Development Projects

摘要

The Department of Defense (DoD) is probably the biggest buyer and developer of computer software in the world. Over the years the DoD has developed, implemented, and tested various software management techniques. In this paper the authors describe the major formalized techniques and indicate how they could be applied to software development projects in medical environments.The major control technique used to manage the design of a software project is formal, standardized system documentation. The military departments have developed detailed definitions of the required content for the system documents; these can be found in Mil. Std. 7935.1-S and in Mil. Std. 490. The authors present the major documents in the 7935.1-S documentation suite and indicate their appropriate use.The DoD also uses another formal technique, Configuration Management, to control the contents of the documents and to control changes to the system as its development progresses. After the software is installed at one or more sites, the Status Accounting portion of the Configuration Management discipline is used to keep track of the contents of the operating versions of the software out in the field.