Some time
ago I received the following information on EPR from Akira Tanaka of
Hitachi. At the time Healthcare DTF was dormant. Now that things are
picking up again, I wanted to forward this to you for your evaluation of
relevance. It's my understanding the program has completed; any specific
questions should be forwarded to Akira.
Mr. Akira Tanaka
Section Manager
Hitachi, Ltd., Software Division
5030
Totsuka-cho, Totsuka-ku
Yokohama 244-8555
Japan
Numbers:
Phone: +81-45-862 8735 Fax: +81-45-865 9020
Email: tanakaak@soft.hitachi.co.jp
The report is 155 pp and is full of UML for you modeling
junkies. More info on JAHIS can be found at http://www.jahis.jp/english/english.html
Regards,
Fred
Chapter 1
Introduction
The "Information Model and Computational
Model Development of Electronic Patient Record
System for Tertial
Hospital" has been developed with regard to the background and
purposes
described below.
1
Background
There are great expectations for electronic
patient record system to make the healthcare more
efficient and
improve the medical quality. At some hospitals, advanced in the hospital
information
system, use of practical electronic patient record
systems are being initiated. And now introducing
an electronic
patient record system with greater effectiveness and lower costs in a
short period is
being required. It is conceivably possible to develop
a general-purpose model of the electronic
patient record system and
furthermore to provide the component set, as one measure, in order
to
realize these purposes.
On the other hand, modeling technique
and system constructing technique for improving
scalability,
maintainability and reliability are being required in order to respond
to increasingly
extended and complicated information systems. As one
approach, there is an ISO standard
Reference Model for Open
Distributed Processing (RM-ODP). This RM-ODP draws attention
from
OMG, the standardizing organization of object-oriented
technique. However, the know-how for
using it has not been
established yet.
As a project in 2001, JAHIS (Japanese Association of
Healthcare Information System Industry),
which aims to develop the
component-oriented electronic patient record system model, and
INTAP
(Interoperability Technology Association for Information
Processing, Japan), which aims to get the
know-how for applying
RM-ODP, developed the ambulatory care community and the
inpatient
community of the electronic patient record system
enterprise model for tertial hospital with 200 to
400 beds, based on
RM-ODP and UML Profile for EDOC that are the state-of-the-art
modeling
techniques. Furthermore, in July 2002 JAHIS integrated the
enterprise models of the ambulatory
care community and the inpatient
community and detailed them with targeted scopes.
2 Purposes
In this model development, for
development of the prototype for the electronic patient
record
system, the information model and the computational model are
developed based on the "Electronic
Patient Record System Enterprise
Model for Tertial Hospital" developed in 2002.
In addition, we aim to
accumulate the know-how for developing with the standard
international
modeling techniques, RM-ODP and UML Profile for
EDOC.
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Fred
Waskiewicz
OMG
Director of
Standards
250 First Ave., Suite 100
wask@omg.org / +1 781 444 0404
Needham, MA, USA
02494
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