Evaluation of UML modeling tools for clinical pathways used in health information systems

Author

Pahl, Christina ; Supriyanto, Eko ; Detschew, Vesselin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomechatronics, Ilmenau Univ. of Technol., Ilmenau, Germany

fYear

2015

fDate

17-20 June 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

For the development of clinical care pathways for the Brazilian hospital information system Pajé, a modeling tool is required. For the selection of this tool, some modeling standards were reviewed, applied and subsequently evaluated. Four modeling tools, zOOml, gmodeler, dia and UMLet were tested and validated for the process of modeling UML diagrams based on predefined requirements. Results show that all chosen modeling tools can be used for the representation of clinical pathways. However, only two of them being Dia and UMLet full filled the requirements of this study. It can be concluded that these tools can be used for E-health applications and cross platform modeling projects. Our results are of value for health information system developers and further e-health related projects.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; health care; medical information systems; Brazilian hospital information system; Pajé; UML diagram modeling; UML modeling tool evaluation; UMLet; clinical care pathways; clinical pathway representation; cross platform modeling projects; e-health applications; gmodeler; health information systems; zOOml; Business; Computational modeling; Documentation; Navigation; Object oriented modeling; Software; Unified modeling language; PACS; Pajé; UML; clinical pathway; e-health; health information system; modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2015 10th Iberian Conference on

Conference_Location

Aveiro

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISTI.2015.7170540

Filename

7170540