PD IEC TR 63183:2019

What is PD IEC TR 63183 – Guidance on error and warning messages for software used in radiotherapy about?

PD IEC TR 63183 discusses software used in radiotherapy. PD IEC TR 63183 is an international standard that provides guidance on the error and warning messages for software used in radiotherapy.

PD IEC TR 63183 is a technical report that guides on the usage and form of error or warning messages written for software used in radiotherapy.

The main two goals of PD IEC TR 63183 are to present concisely the best practices and design guidelines for good message dialogs and to illustrate these design guidelines with specific examples from the field of radiation oncology.

Note 1: PD IEC TR 63183 does not replace any requirements existing in the safety standards but is meant to be used as a supplement to existing standards on usability by providing specific examples in the field of radiotherapy.

Note 2: Throughout PD IEC TR 63183:2019, unless specifically called out, these guidelines apply to all categories of messages summarily called error or warning messages.

Who is PD IEC TR 63183 - Guidance on error and warning messages for software used in radiotherapy for?

PD IEC TR 63183 on guidance for software used in radiotherapy is useful for:

• Manufacturers of radiotherapy equipment
• The operator of radiotherapy equipment
• Engineering department members (including software engineers, RISK managers, quality assurance engineers, technical writers, etc)
• Usability and human factors engineers
• Marketing representatives like product managers, business analysts

Why should you use PD IEC TR 63183 - Guidance on error and warning messages for software used in radiotherapy?

Software used in radiotherapy sometimes shows errors and warning messages due to various reasons. Proper guidance is required for these errors and warning messages.

PD IEC TR 63183 guides on how to write relevant error messages shown to the clinical operators. PD IEC TR 63183 is meant to provide examples within the radiotherapy domain.

PD IEC TR 63183 guideline assists you with design systems to avoid errors, categorize messages, consolidate reports, and display error messages for software used in radiotherapy. PD IEC TR 63183 assists you with basic structure, operator centered, message clarity, message actionability, message specificity, and use of error codes for software used in radiotherapy. In addition, provides development process and visual design guidelines for software used in radiotherapy.

PD IEC TR 63183 assists you to minimize hazards due to the reported increase in the number of treatment delivery errors, some serious, occurring due to misunderstanding of the various error and warning messages shown to the operator during usage.