Building a Web-based drug ordering system for hospitals: from requirements engineering to prototyping.
Web-based drug ordering allows a growing number of hospitals without pharmacy to communicate seamlessly with their external pharmacy. Business process analysis and object oriented modelling performed together with the users at a pilot hospital resulted in a comprehensive picture of the user and business requirements for electronic drug ordering. The user requirements were further validated with the help of a software prototype. In order to capture the needs of a large number of users CAP10, a new method making use of pre-built models, is proposed. Solutions for coping with the technical requirements (interfacing the business software at the pharmacy) and with the legal requirements (signing the orders) are presented.
Hübner
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University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Business Economics-Healthcare Computing, P.O. Box 1940 D-49009 Osnabrück F.R. Germany.
Klein
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Hofstetter
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Kammeyer
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Seete
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D003198:Computer Simulation; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital; D011682:Purchasing, Hospital; D012985:Software Design