Engineering Reliable Medical Device Software : Patient Safety, Lifecycle Evidence, and Engineering Practice in the AI Era
Overview
Engineering Reliable Medical Device Software is a practical guide to building software that must protect patients, support clinicians, and remain dependable throughout the full medical-device lifecycle.
Written from the perspective of an engineer with more than two decades of experience in medical imaging and regulated product development, the book explains why medical-device software reliability cannot be reduced to defect counts, uptime percentages, or a final verification campaign. Reliability begins with intended use and patient harm, then continues through requirements, architecture, risk control, testing, release, installation, service, cybersecurity, and post-market learning.
The book shows how to:
- Define reliability goals that engineers can measure and defend.
- Build operational profiles that reflect real clinical workflows, rare high-risk conditions, degraded environments, and field variation.
- Apply software FMEA, fault-tree analysis, reliability modeling, observability, fault management, combinatorial testing, reliability-growth testing, and reliability-demonstration testing.
- Design for safe degradation, recovery, redundancy, maintainability, and diagnostic evidence.
- Control SOUP, third-party dependencies, cybersecurity risks, software updates, configuration drift, and fielded versions.
- Evaluate AI-enabled medical software, including model performance, input quality, human interaction, monitoring, fallback behavior, and controlled change.
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools without allowing generated code, tests, trace links, or risk analyses to become unverified evidence.
- Connect engineering decisions to IEC 62304, ISO 14971, usability engineering, FDA expectations, quality management systems, and post-market obligations.
The book includes formulas, worked examples, milestone reviews, practical templates, review questions, glossary definitions, and lessons from real medical-device failures.
It is written for software engineers, systems engineers, reliability engineers, technical leaders, quality and regulatory professionals, and anyone responsible for deciding whether medical-device software is ready to be trusted in real clinical use.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798189973369
- ISBN-10: 9798189973369
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: August 2026
- Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.95 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.38 pounds
- Page Count: 470
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