Advances in Medical Technology through Convergence (AMTC)

Tuesday 19th October 2010
Flexible - Dundalk/ Dublin/ Galway

Objective
This half-day course is designed to provide an understanding of the basic principles of medical device software development for engineers and managers in industry and support agencies. No prior knowledge of medical device software development is required. 

Aims of the Course
The course is designed to:

This module will provide an overview of medical device software development and explore the potential for developing medical device software. The module will:

•    Discuss the opportunities that exist for medical device software development.
•    Provide an introduction to the principles of medical device software development
•    Provide guidance in relation to the standards that have to adhered to in order to achieve regulatory approval.   

Who Should Attend?
The course is intended for engineers and managers in industry and supporting agencies who require knowledge of medical device software development, either for their current projects or for future product development. It is also designed for those in companies who have to interact with suppliers of medical device software solutions and for those wishing to refresh their knowledge of medical device software development.

Learning Outcomes
This course will enable you to:

•    Understand the opportunities for medical device software development.
•    Determine the challenges in relation to performing medical device software development.
•    Identify the  standards that have to adhered to in order to achieve regulatory approval.   
•    Understand the relationship between the various standards/guidelines.

Programme
The course will run from 10:00 a.m. on October 19th 2010 to 1:00 p.m. on 19th October 2010. There will be ample opportunity to interact with the lecturing staff and other delegates during the course.


Programme
October 2010
10:00    Introduction to Medical Device Software Development
10:30    Overview of Regulations
11:30    Break
12:00    Guidance on adhering to the Regulations
12:30    Discussion and End of Short Course.  A certificate of attendance will be provided to each participant.
13:00    Lunch

Course Lecturers
Dr Fergal Mc Caffery is a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Stokes Lecturer and Principal Investigator at Dundalk Institute of Technology in Dundalk (DkIT). He is leader of the Regulated Software Research Group in DkIT and is a member of International Standards Working Groups for Software Processes. He obtained his PhD from the University of Ulster, Jordanstown. He is the International Project Leader for the development of a Medical Device Software Process Assessment Standard.  He has published over 80 internationally peer-reviewed conference and journal papers in relation to software engineering.

Dr John Burton is the Chief Technical Officer for Vitalograph Ireland Ltd., a world leading provider of respiratory diagnostic devices, clinical trials and medical equipment. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Limerick in 2008. He has over 13 years experience in Software Process, Architecture, Design, Development and QA.  His PhD research focused on Medical Device Software Risk Management and culminated in
the publication of the book "The Medical Device Industry: Developments in Software Risk Management" in 2009.

Follow-on courses
This course is the first in a series of 3 courses on medical device software development. The other 2 courses are 1 day courses which build upon the material covered in this course. The details of these courses are as follows:

•    Achieving compliance with the latest medical device software regulations
This course will examine the list of standards that have to be adhered to in order to achieve both Food and Drug Administration and Medical Device Directive Compliance for medical device software. The module will focus upon the latest and most important medical device software standards (e.g. AAMI/IEC 62304, IEC 62366, IEC 80002 etc. ) and explore how each of the standards relate to each other and what are critical areas to focus upon.

•    Achieving compliance whilst increasing the efficiency of your medical device software development
The course will explore the adoption of different types of software engineering practices to assist organisations to achieve regulatory compliant medical device software whilst also increasing the efficiency of their medical device software development environment and the quality/safety of their software products. This module will examine how plan-driven, agile and lean software engineering practices may be integrated to obtain a more productive software development environment.

Location of Short Course
Room AO 208
Applied Optics Group
Arts and Sciences Building
National University of Ireland Galway

Registration
http://www.ibec.ie/IBEC/Events.nsf/wvIMDAPages/Event~amtc-3-introductory-medical-device-software-development-processes-19-10-2010?OpenDocument

 
 

The new ICS blog network has just been launched. With news and views from Industry experts in the fields of Data Protection, IT Law, Education 2.0 and Health 2.0.

You can check out our latest posts here http://blogs.ics.ie/

The Irish HCI community has continued to grow over the past number of years and has seen much support through the past iHCI conferences, the establishments of the ACM SIGCHI chapter and regular meetings of the Dublin, and more recently, the Limerick Interaction Design Association (IxDA). This coupled with the diversity in the topics and areas that researchers, students and practitioners in Ireland are operating in, makes it a very exciting time for the community.

To reflect both the growth of the Irish HCI community, and the broad range of research being conducted within Ireland, the theme of this year's conference will be 'Crossing Boundaries'. We welcome submissions exploring, discussing or challenging the many boundaries within our community today: the traditional boundaries between academia and industry; the physical boundaries which influence our work; the boundaries between creativity and code; the boundaries between research and real-world use; and the boundaries between 'traditional' desktop systems and mobile, tangible, or ambient interaction; and pushing boundaries into novel or challenging spaces. More information can be found in the conference's Call for Papers, available in the authors section.

The two-day program will build from the very successful format of 2009 and seeks to provide a national forum through which HCI researchers, practitioners and industry professionals in Ireland can meet, present and discuss their ongoing work. The iHCI 2010 Programme will follow a similar format to the previous conferences and will include an Industry Session (Co-Ordinated by the IxDA Dublin and Limerick Groups), a Student Forum, and a Poster and Demos Showcase along with peer-reviewed short and full paper presentations. We are also delighted to welcome Professor Richard Harper (Microsoft Research) to deliver the opening keynote address.

iHCI 2010 has received many excellent submissions this year and the full program for the 2-day event will be shortly announced. Unfortunately, we could only accept a limited number of full and short paper submissions. However, we wish this year’s conference to be as inclusive as possible. Therefore, we are extending an invitation to many of authors of unsuccessful full and short paper submissions to showcase their work during the Poster Session. We hope this will allow as many as possible an opportunity to present their work and to contribute to the exciting discussion at iHCI 2010.

iHCI 2010 will be held in the School of Nursing / Health Sciences Building in Dublin City University on September 2nd & 3rd 2010. It is kindly supported by both Dublin City University and CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies. iHCI 2010 is a local chapter activity of SIGCHI Ireland.

Conference pricing and details on how to register that can be found here: 

http://www.clarity-centre.org/iHCI2010/registration/

Autumn Events at the ICS

Presenting Yourself Professionally

In response to our most recent member’s survey, presentation skills proved the number one softskill you would like to see covered at an ICS event and so we’re delighted to announce “Presenting Your self Professionally” with Aideen Howe, Thursday 7th October 2010. 17:30pm-19:30pm.

Make your presentation a memorable one for the right reasons.

•    Learn the tricks of delivering an effective introduction so that you grab the attention of your audience
•    How to structure your presentation so it appears natural, with a conversational flow.
How to engage your audience
•    Tips on using appropriate humour, if you’re brave enough
•    How and when to use visual aids
•    Voice projection
•    Dealing with the unexpected:  aggressive questions etc.

Delivered by: Aideen Howe

Aideen has over 20 years experience working in Ireland, Australia and the United States of America in training and development roles. She has been responsible for project managing numerous training and development programmes which have led to the FAS Excellence through People Award. She is a specialist provider of Equality Awareness Programmes; the European Computer Driving License (ECDL); and Business Coaching for Women.

Date: Thursday 7th October 2010
Time: 17:30pm-19:30pm
Venue : ICS, Crescent Hall, Mount Street Crescent, Dublin 2

Free to ICS Members/ Non members €40

Ensure your place register today here

CIO Masterclass Morning: Professor Joe Peppard and Prof. Martin Curley

In November we have something truly special for all current or aspiring CIO’s.

A successful CIO is constantly looking at prioritising best practices to determine how technology can improve an overall performance. If you are working in IT management, or have aspirations for the post of CIO, then these events will help you do just that.

CIO Masterclass Morning: Professor Joe Peppard and Prof. Martin Curley, Thursday 4th November from 8:30-12:00 noon.
Professor Joe Peppard is no stranger to ICS members. Professor Peppard's consulting is focused on advising organisations on IT and strategy related matters and how to unlock business value from their IT investments. He also works with a number of technology companies helping them with their strategy, market positioning and growth.

Prof. Joe Peppard Presents: The Leadership Challenges of the CIO

Research at Cranfield School of Management over 20 years ago led to the development of the IT investment portfolio model. Since then this model and its application has been further developed and enhanced and it is now used by organizations worldwide. Colloquially referred to as the Cranfield Grid, it analyses all existing, planned and potential IT investments based on an assessment of the current and future business importance.

The main purpose in classifying investments is to ensure that they are managed successfully and that the expected contribution is delivered. Based on the issues relevant to each investment type, appropriate implementation strategies can be adopted. These, in turn, can be related to the strategy formulation and planning approaches to provide consistency of management from strategy formulation to implementation.

A powerful framework, its usefulness is borne out by the ease with which business management is willing and able to categorize IT investments and understand current and future investments and their business impact. This Masterclass will introduce the Cranfield Grid and describe how it can be used. As the portfolio will evolve over time how the effects of that evolution can be managed successfully will also be considered. 

Prof. Martin Curley is Professor of Technology and Business Innovation at NUI Maynooth and co-Director of IVI, helping lead a unique industry-academic open innovation consortium to advance IT management and innovation.
Prof Curley is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland and the Irish Computer Society .He is a frequent international keynote speaker on Innovation and Technology.

Martin also the recently appointed Director of Intel Labs Europe whose mission is to advance Intel research and innovation in Europe while partnering to enable European competitiveness.

Prof Curley is also Senior Principal Engineer and Global Director of IT Innovation at Intel Corporation managing a network of IT Innovation centres catalyzing worldwide IT Innovation.

Prof. Marin Curley Presents: From Zero to Hero: Systematically improving IT capability and value using the IT Capability Maturity Framework.

Ensure your place register today here

The Irish Computer Society and ICS Skills strongly believes education must be a priority as a primary route to job creation. Interactive whiteboards, laptops, virtual learning environments (VLE’s) should be common place in Ireland’s classrooms.  Not in the classroom of tomorrow but in the here and now.

With the objective of supporting and aiding the education system of this country, helping it evolving into the dynamic and flexible learning environment it needs to be, ICS and ICS Skills is delighted and proud to give you a sneak preview of the ICS Global Grid for Learning.

This is a digital content service from ICS that provides access to over one million digital learning resources from multiple global providers.

Our library of learning resources delivers high quality digital content to education, helping teachers provide fun, engaging and personalised learning experiences for their students.

These resources are mapped to the Irish curriculum, including thousands of new project maths resources. Every resource is copyright-cleared for education so that teachers and students can use, edit and repurpose digital content in any way they like.

We source and select only the best resources for your classroom, consistently bringing reliable, appropriate and relevant education content into Ireland’s classrooms.

Explore the Grid on www.ics.ie/grid

IT company, Origina recently did an analysis of their data and discovered that 80% of the data sitting in their infrastructure had not been touched in 2 years.

Global industry statistics show that up to 80% of companies’ data has probably not been accessed within the last 30 days, yet we keep it on costly storage environments.

As an ICS member, Origina values your opinion and would appreciate your feedback.  Are these findings common place across the Irish Market?.

This Data Storage & Analysis Survey will take just minutes of your time and those who respond will be entered into a draw to win a 32GB Apple iPad or one of five free data storage analysis assessments.

Data Storage & Analysis Survey http://bit.ly/Origina

For further information please contact Sharon McGuire on s.mcguire@origina.ie or follow Origina on twitter @Origina_IT.

The Centre for Software Engineering (CSE) training courses are now grant aided for FAS registered persons where a high proportion of the fee is paid by FAS.

See http://www.cse.dcu.ie/training/index.html for a list of courses.

On the 10th June ICS members met to discuss the then proposed Data Breach Code of Practice and submitted a number of recommendations to the Commissioner. 

The Commissioner has since approved a new Personal Data Security Breach Code of Practice largely unchanged from the draft. This Code of Practice (below) has been approved by the Data Protection Commissioner under Section 13 (2) (b) of the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003.