THE HELIOS MEDICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT

The aim of the HELIOS project is to create an integrated Software Engi neering Environment (SEE) to facilitate the development and maintenanc e of medical applications. HELIOS is made of a set of software compone nts, communicating through a software bus called the HELIOS Unificatio n Bus. The object oriented paradigm is used both as the basic structur e for building the software components and as the methodology for mode lling, storing and retrieving the entities and procedures used in an a pplication. Development standards include UNIX as operating system and X Window/MOTIF as windowing environment. One of the target applicatio ns for the HELIOS prototype is the development of a multimedia medical workstation as a front end to a hospital information system.