Utilizing a Use Case Approach to Develop and Object Information Model for Online Guideline System Output File Format

摘要

With the advent of new web standards such as XML (the extensible markup language), there lies the promise of increased connectivity among informatics applications; such promise can only be realized however if the data models of the information sources are compatible. While work has been done in modeling the logical specification of automated guideline/reminder systems and the clinical data that form their input, little has been done on modeling the output of such systems. A data model for automated guideline output can help foster such compatibility by providing a common frame of reference. We have begun to utilize the “use case” approach by Jacobson et al to develop an object oriented information model of guideline output. We derived use cases from previously published implementations of guideline systems. We present our preliminary results.