The medical software quality deployment method

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 66-73

  Hallberg, Niklas ^a   Timpka, T ^b   Eriksson, H ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Customer Focus; Information System Design; Quality Function Deployment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

CONSUMER SATISFACTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032997892     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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