Method of providing tailor-made software for hospital departments
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsKarlheinz Dorn, Andrew John Hewett, Vladyslav Ukis
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Abstract
To provide tailor-made software for use in a specific department of a hospital, a software package suitable for use by more than one department of the hospital is provided including components implementing general tasks. Then, software is added implementing tasks which may be considered to extend the general tasks. This extension can be tailor-made for the specific department. In at least one embodiment, the software package includes both front end and back end software components, front end components reacting to user inputs and calling up back end software components, and the extension may be both at the front end and at the back end side.
Claims9
A method of providing software for administrating the work flow of an apparatus used in a hospital, the method comprising:
- providing a software package configured for use in a plurality of departments of the hospital, the software package including at least one front end software component and at least one back end software component, the the at least one front end software component and the the at least one back end software component include code segments configured to be executed by a processor,
- performing, by the processor, at least one task associated with the at least one front end software component in response to a user input provided via a user interface;
- performing, by the processor, at least one task associated with the at least one back end software component in response to a call from the at least one front end software component;
- and
- adding, by the processor, at least one further software component including at least one further front end software component and at least one further back end software component, to the provided software package, the at least one further software component being configured to implement at least one task that is specific to one of the plurality of departments of the hospital.
A method of providing software made for a hospital department from among a plurality of hospital departments, the method comprising:
- providing, by a processor, at least one front end software component, the at least one front end software component including at least one task component implementing at least one general task associated with the plurality of hospital departments;
- providing, by the processor, at least one back end software component such that the at least one of the back end software component includes code segments configured to be executed by the processor in response to a call from the at least one front end software component;
- and
- adding at least one further front end software component to provide an extended version of the at least one front end software component, the extend version being specific to one of the plurality of hospital departments.
A non-transitory storage medium on which program code is stored, the program code including,
- at least one front end component, and
- at least one back end component, wherein
- the at least one of the front end component includes code segments configured to be executed by a processor and configured to call the at least one back end component,
- the at least one front end component includes at least one general front end component and at least one further front end component, the at least one general front end component being configured to implement at least one general task associated with a plurality of hospital departments, and the at least one further front end component being configured to implement at least one specific task that is specific to one of the plurality of hospital departments, and
- the at least one back end component includes at least one general back end component and at least one further back end component, the at least one general back end component being configured to implement at least one general task associated with the plurality of hospital departments, and the at least one further back end component being configured to implement at least one specific task that is specific to one of the plurality of hospital departments, the at least one back end component being executed by the processor in response to the call.
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