Modelling the hospital into the future with UML
by Isabel A. Cruz, Antonio Gramaxo Silva, Pedro Soares, Ilidio Oliveira, J. Artur V. Serrano, Joao Paulo Cunha
International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management (IJHTM), Vol. 4, No. 3/4, 2002

Abstract: This paper describes the work developed in the scope of the European project TEAM-HOS, regarding the experience of using the ''Unified Modelling Language'' (UML) as a tool for modelling optimal solutions in healthcare. In this paper, we explain how UML is being used to cover information and process modelling as well as for modelling organisational structures and their interdependencies, in order to define the optimal integrated information exchange inside the hospital. We present an overall assessment of UML, based on our experience, and we explain why we found UML to be a practical formalism for ''modelling the hospital into the future''.

Online publication date: Mon, 30-Jun-2003

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