TIETRONIX SOFTWARE INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: DHP15-005

Description

Integrated Clinical Environments (ICE) rely heavily on medical devices that need to be protected from security threats without compromising patient health and safety. There is a need to assess clinical workflow configurations in terms of security, usability, and efficiency. Currently, each medical device has its own security controls. Access to multiple devices in the integrated environment requires multiple authentication processes, which can result in risks to patient health and safety. This presents an acute issue in the military clinical environment. Multi-user and multi-patient scenarios in a clinical environment further complicate and compound these issues. The proposed innovation is to demonstrate the feasibility of developing a tool suite for modeling military clinical workflow scenarios and performing impact assessments that consider efficiency, usability, and security control parameters. The benefits of our proposed innovation include the ability to visualize military clinical workflows, evaluate military clinical scenarios and medical devices to optimize the workflow and enhance system design integrity. The tool suite will allow security control integration into proposed workflow scenarios and clearly assessing impact to the workflow. The results of the modeling and simulation tool will promote security design guidelines for medical devices to better support the integrated clinical environment.