Using Model-Driven Engineering and Health Standards for Improving Healthcare Processes Management

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.) © 2015 Eu opean Fede a ion o Medical In o ma ics (EFMI). This a icle is published online wi h Open Access by IOS P ess and dis ibu ed unde he e ms o he C ea i e Commons A ibu ion Non-Comme cial License. doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-512-8-986 986