The Process of Modeling Information System Architectures with IHE.

Abstract:

IHE has defined more than 200 integration profiles in order to improve the interoperability of application systems in healthcare. These profiles describe how standards should be used in particular use cases. These profiles are very helpful but their correct use is challenging, if the user is not familiar to the specifications. Therefore, inexperienced modelers of information systems quickly lose track of existing IHE profiles. In addition, the users of these profiles are often not aware of rules that are defined within these profiles and of dependencies that exist between the profiles. There are also modelers that do not notice the differences between the implemented actors, because they do not know the optional capabilities of some actors. The aim of this paper is therefore to describe a concept how modelers of information systems can be supported in the selection and use of IHE profiles and how this concept was prototypically implemented in the "Three-layer Graph-based meta model" modeling tool (3LGM2 Tool). The described modeling process consists of the following steps that can be looped: defining the use case, choosing suitable integration profiles, choosing actors and their options and assigning them to application systems, checking for required actor groupings and modeling transactions. Most of these steps were implemented in the 3LGM2 Tool. Further implementation effort and evaluation of our approach by inexperienced users is needed. But after that our tool should be a valuable tool for modelers planning healthcare information system architectures, in particular those based on IHE.

PubMed ID: 34042890

Projects: 3LGM² Enterprise Architecture Modeling

Publication type: Journal article

Journal: Stud Health Technol Inform

Human Diseases: No Human Disease specified

Citation: Stud Health Technol Inform. 2021 May 24;278:163-170. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210065.

Date Published: 24th May 2021

Registered Mode: by PubMed ID

Authors: A. Merzweiler, S. Staubert, A. Strubing, A. Tonmbiak, K. Kaulke, J. Drepper, B. Bergh, A. Winter

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