Society is constantly changing and evolving provoking the emergence of new needs.  One consequence of this emergence of new needs is the increased demand to integrate or create technology on systems that will leverage this needs.  The first step on the process of systems design is the evaluation of needs.  This evaluation will determine if the need is valid and if the current technology can be used to provide a solution that is feasible and cost effective.  This solution is later translated into a systems that satisfies the need.  Nevertheless, delivered solutions usually leverage a need during a limited amount of time.  At times, the needs can disappear or they can evolve into more complex scenarios.  On the case of the evolution of the need into more complex scenarios, development teams with be appointed with the task of changing the system in order to satisfy the new scenario.  System Design and Management can be defined as the grouping of all these activities that are needed to analyze need, provides a continuous solution for a problem or decides to retire a system.

Artifact 1: 556 Management Gaps of Health Care Software Used in Devices
  • Demonstrates understanding of Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FEMA) applied to a system design
  • Demonstrates the articulation of a health care system design
This artifact is a white paper that includes the execution of FEMA on the management of health care devices.  Additionally, this paper contains a proposal of a process necessary for the management of health care devices.  The proposed process has been divided into 5 different levels of interaction for the flow of information needed to manage health care devices.  The selected approach aimed at leveraging the increasing complexity on the landscape on which medical devices are interacting and provide a standardized framework.

Artifact 2: 542 Case Study, Delay in Prescription Dispensing
  • Demonstrates the understanding of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) applied to a health care process
The current artifact contains the end result of RCA executed on a health care process related to prescription dispensing.  This use case identifies and analyzes the four major factors that contributes to the variation and increase in time for prescription dispensing.  Additionally, main factors are presented and analyzed alongside their contributing variables.

​Artifact 3: 500 Implantable Sensors for Neurotransmitters Monitoring
  • Demonstrate the articulation of a health care system design
  • Demonstrates understanding of human and technology systems integration
The current artifact contains the project proposal for a health care system capable of monitoring chemical signaling and neurotransmitter function in patients with neurological diseases.  The proposed system integrates the use of a microsensor probe, IoT devices and Big Data analytics in order to understand better the relationship between chemical and electrical activity in the human brain.  As a result, the proposed system can serve as an example the integration of technology with humans to generate knowledge.

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Artifact 2:

542.fishdiagram.case.study.docx
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