2nd Workshop on Fail Safety in Medical Cyber-Physical Systems (FS-MCPS)

Medical cyber-physical systems (MCPSs) extend the notion of conventional medical devices to more complex technical systems in close connection to humans, e.g., acquiring sensor data, controlling a treatment, or monitoring recovery. Typically, these systems include the patient in the loop and require a high degree of dependability and fail safety. One challenge is the complex nature of physiological processes, which are often patientspecific and less deterministic than in, e.g., engineering scenarios. Thus, many of the underlying interactions are today still not modeled in detail. Another challenge is the growing complexity of medical systems and devices themselves. Hence, fail safety of a MCPS cannot be achieved within a single component or layer — neither the software layer nor any other isolated layer —, but requires an interdisciplinary effort addressing different aspects, including patient modeling, hardware, software, and communication.