A User-Centered, Object-Oriented Methodology for Developing Health Information Systems: A Clinical Information System (CIS) Example

Authors:
Georgios Konstantinidis;George C. Anastassopoulos;Alexandros S. Karakos;Emmanouil Anagnostou;Vasileios Danielides
Affiliations:
ENT (Ear Nose Throat) Department, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece;Medical Informatics Laboratory, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece;ENT (Ear Nose Throat) Department, Nikaia General Hospital, Piraeus, Greece;ENT (Ear Nose Throat) Department, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece
Venue:
Journal of Medical Systems
Year:
2012

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to present our perspectives on healthcare analysis and design and the lessons learned from our experience with the development of a distributed, object-oriented Clinical Information System (CIS). In order to overcome known issues regarding development, implementation and finally acceptance of a CIS by the physicians we decided to develop a novel object-oriented methodology by integrating usability principles and techniques in a simplified version of a well established software engineering process (SEP), the Unified Process (UP). A multilayer architecture has been defined and implemented with the use of a vendor application framework. Our first experiences from a pilot implementation of our CIS are positive. This approach allowed us to gain a socio-technical understanding of the domain and enabled us to identify all the important factors that define both the structure and the behavior of a Health Information System.