Using Model-D i en Enginee ing and
Heal h S anda ds o Imp o ing Heal hca e
P ocesses Managemen
Alicia MARTÍNEZ-GARCÍAa,b,1, Ma ía José ESCALONAb, Julián Albe o GARCÍA-
GARCÍAb, Gus a o ARAGÓNb, Albe o MORENO-CONDEa and Ca los PARRAa
aTechnological Inno a ion G oup, “Vi gen del Rocío” Uni e si y Hospi al, Spain
bUni e si y o Se ille, Spain
Keywo ds.Model-D i en Enginee ing, Heal hca e P ocesses, Heal h S anda ds,
Me amodels, A che ypes
De ining Heal hca e P ocesses Suppo Sys ems (HPSS) in a clinical con ex is an
essen ial and no always easy ask. I is c i ical o p o ide mechanisms o assu e ha
he HPSS implemen a ion ma ches he clinical expe de ini ion.
In his pape , we p opose he use o he Model-D i en Enginee ing (MDE) o sol e
his opic. Wi hin MDE, we ha e chosen o ep esen concep s wi h Use In e aces
Design and Uni ied Modeling Languages (UML) p o iles. Mo eo e , se e al s anda ds
we e applied wi hin HPSS de ini ion: EN/ISO13606, ISO21090 and ISO/DIS3940.
In his sense, wo me amodels a e de ined in ou app oach. The i s one is an ex ension
o EN/ISO13606 me amodel and i is combined wi h ISO/DIS13940 in o de o include
concep s ela ed o con inui y o ca e and seman ic in e ope abili y. The second one
enables de ining business p ocesses adap ed o he Heal hca e P ocesses en i onmen ,
inco po a ing he equi ed a ibu es s anda dized wi h ISO/IEC TR 24744.
We ha e de eloped a sys ema ic p ocedu e ha gene a es an execu able HPSS om an
ins ance o ou me amodels, adap ed o a conc e e en i onmen in oduced wi hin he
“Vi gen del Rocío” Uni e si y Hospi al (VRUH). We ha e implemen ed model- o- ex
ans o ma ions in an au oma ic p ocedu e in o de o gene a e execu able HPSS wi h
in VRUH en i onmen om ins ances o ou me amodels.
Ou UML P o iles ha e been applied o a eal HPSS ha desc ibes he medical
examina ion o a pa ien wi h spinal co d inju y. We ha e ob ained a Ja a execu able
e sion o ou models as a esul o he pe o med au oma ic p ocedu e, a e de ining
bo h models.
We a e wo king in an e ec i e applica ion o MDE o he HPSS con ex , educing he
complexi y o de ining HPSS o gua an ee he quali y o he esul s.
Cu en ly, he clinical p o essionals a e alida ing he spinal co d inju y HPSS in a
es ing phase o his execu able e sion. This p oo o concep allowed es ing he
capabili ies o Model-D i en Enginee ing o p o ide implemen able solu ions o abo e
de ailed s anda ds wi hin ou heal hca e en i onmen .
1Co esponding Au ho .
Digi al Heal hca e Empowe ing Eu opeans
R. Co ne e al. (Eds.)
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