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Big Data Analytics and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) in Healthcare

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I am concerned about the software development tools best for the development of big data solutions for the healthcare sector. Is Microsoft Azure DevOps services adequate for developing Internet of Medical Things (IOMT) for medical devices?

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Re: big data analytics and IoMT

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Can you tell a few more things?
– Why are you concerned?
– What’s the relationship between developing software for medical devices and developing software for big data analytics?
– What experience does your organisation have with DevOps? For what kind of applications? It hardly seems applicable for software built into a device.

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I am currently developing an Azure IOT solution for Heath Care devices (IoMT). These applications collect large amounts of information from connected medical devices and also monitor them for usage and anomalies by pushing real-time data to dashboards for healthcare professionals and infrastructure users. They also predict trends for growth and avoids failures for the connected medical devices with predictive analytics. Raw data would be archived and cleaned up automatically as the case may be.

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Thanks for your clear reply. But only half of my questions. The remaining ones:
– Why are you concerned.
– What experience does your organisation have with DevOps? For what kind of applications?

And one more:
– You (and possibly a lot of others) are the Dev-team. But who are or will be the Ops-team to form a DevOps-team with?

Agile DevOps

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There are four levels of people and culture maturity in the progression from traditional to modern engineering (Agile DevOps). Moving through the levels, operations and development/test functions gradually merge. The four levels are:
Level 1—Trust: Software engineers (development and test) and service engineers (operations) learn more about one another’s roles. As they begin to understand each other better, they develop greater patience and trust.
Level 2—Shared goals: Roles are still differentiated. Service engineers and software engineers continue to learn about each other’s roles and begin sharing a common backlog. They begin to step in and help each other where possible.
Level 3—Role sharing: Roles begin to merge. Service engineers and software engineers start using common systems and tools and cultivate new skills so they can begin stepping into one another’s roles.
Level 4—Fully integrated roles: Finally, there is no difference between service engineers and software engineers. Everyone is part of the same team with common goals. The customer is the focus. There are no more hand-offs, only common tools, processes, and projects.
Our engineering teams are progressing up these levels, albeit at different speeds. Most teams currently are in Level 2 or 3. One hurdle to moving up a level is the time it takes the team member to learn a new role while maintaining responsibility for their daily tasks.

I am concerned because of the sensitivities of big data solutions.

I’m going with no.

In reply to Big Data Analytics and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) in Healthcare

I’ve developed so many embedded systems but NEVER considered Medical Devices since they are subject to so many regulations and liability issues. I’m in USA and Canada for reference. If you are in another country, maybe no to few regulations.

As such, no. Never and again, never.

Embedded Software inside medical devices

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I thought embedded software in medical devices are built according to standards like ISO 13485 or IEC 62304 .

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.If you are in another country, maybe no to few regulations.

Also, the insurance costs of the apps you mentioned may surprise you. Caveat: USA and Canada is where I know a little about this.

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I am in Nigeria, Africa. The ISO 13485 or IEC 62304 concerning software for medical devices is strictly enforced in designing and developing embedded software for medical devices.
However i agree with you that insurance costs are very high, Nigeria is no an exception.

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