Creating and maintaining a collaboration platform via domain-specific reference modelling

We present a model-driven approach to create and maintain a collaboration platform for supporting the collaboration between acute hospitals and rehabilitation clinics to optimize transferal management. The model-driven approach makes the platform highly configurable to accommodate new clinical pathways and be easily extendable to include additional functions to meet future needs. All domain-specific aspects are described declaratively in an application model. The elements in the application model are mapped to corresponding elements in an application framework to obtain the executable collaboration platform. Attaching the mappings to the constructs of an underlying domain-specific language ensures that executable code can be derived from all application models. Furthermore, our framework includes reference models which serve as blueprints and will make it easier to create and adapt application models.