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Bridging the Engineering and Medicine GapA primary challenge NASA faces is communication between the disparate entities of engineers and human system experts in life sciences. Clear communication is critical for exploration mission success from the perspective of both risk analysis and data handling. The engineering community uses probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) models to inform their own risk analysis and has extensive experience managing mission data, but does not always fully consider human systems integration (HSI). The medical community, as a part of HSI, has been working 1) to develop a suite of tools to express medical risk in quantitative terms that are relatable to the engineering approaches commonly in use, and 2) to manage and integrate HSI data with engineering data. This talk will review the development of the Integrated Medical Model as an early attempt to bridge the communication gap between the medical and engineering communities in the language of PRA. This will also address data communication between the two entities in the context of data management considerations of the Medical Data Architecture. Lessons learned from these processes will help identify important elements to consider in future communication and integration of these two groups.
Document ID
20170010123
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Walton, M. (KBRwyle Science, Technology and Engineering Houston, TX, United States)
Antonsen, E. (NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
October 16, 2017
Publication Date
January 22, 2018
Subject Category
Aerospace Medicine
Life Sciences (General)
Report/Patent Number
JSC-CN-40713
Meeting Information
Meeting: NASA Human Research Program Investigators'' Workshop (HRP IWS 2018)
Location: Galveston, TX
Country: United States
Start Date: January 22, 2018
End Date: January 25, 2018
Sponsors: NASA Headquarters
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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