PMID- 11086969
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20010301
LR  - 20191104
IS  - 1463-9238 (Print)
IS  - 1463-9238 (Linking)
VI  - 25
IP  - 3
DP  - 2000 Jul-Sep
TI  - Development of a software for the design of custom-made hip prostheses using an 
      open-source rapid application development environment.
PG  - 183-93
AB  - The present work describes a technology transfer project called HIPCOM devoted to 
      the re-engineering of the process used by a medical devices manufacturer to 
      design custom-made hip prostheses. Although it started with insufficient support 
      from the end-user management, a very tight scheduling and a moderate budget, the 
      project developed into what is considered by all partners a success story. In 
      particular, the development of the design software, called HIPCOM Interactive 
      Design Environment (HIDE) was completed in a time shorter than any optimistic 
      expectation. The software was quite stable since its first beta version, and once 
      introduced at the user site it fully replaced the original procedure in less than 
      two months. One year after the early adoption, more than 80 custom-made 
      prostheses had been designed with HIDE and the user had reported only two bugs, 
      both cosmetics. The scope of the present work was to report the development 
      experience and to investigate the reasons for these positive results, with 
      particular reference to the development procedure and the software architecture. 
      The choice of TCL/TK as development language and the adoption of well-defined 
      software architecture were found to be the success key factors. Other important 
      determinants were found to be the adoption of an incremental software engineering 
      strategy, well suited for small to medium projects and the presence in the 
      development staff of a technology transfer expert.
FAU - Viceconti, M
AU  - Viceconti M
AD  - Laboratorio di Tecnologia Medica, Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy. 
      viceconti@tecno.ior.it
FAU - Testi, D
AU  - Testi D
FAU - Gori, R
AU  - Gori R
FAU - Zannoni, C
AU  - Zannoni C
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Med Inform Internet Med
JT  - Medical informatics and the Internet in medicine
JID - 100883495
SB  - IM
MH  - *Computer-Aided Design
MH  - *Equipment Design
MH  - *Hip Prosthesis
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Software
MH  - Technology Transfer
EDAT- 2000/11/22 11:00
MHDA- 2001/03/07 10:01
CRDT- 2000/11/22 11:00
PHST- 2000/11/22 11:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2001/03/07 10:01 [medline]
PHST- 2000/11/22 11:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1080/146392300750019181 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Med Inform Internet Med. 2000 Jul-Sep;25(3):183-93. doi: 
      10.1080/146392300750019181.