title: A user-centered, object-oriented methodology for developing Health Information Systems: a Clinical Information System (CIS) example.
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.
authors: ENT Department, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece. georgios.konstantinidis@gmail.com
authors: Georgios
authors: G
authors: Konstantinidis
authors: George C
authors: GC
authors: Anastassopoulos
authors: Alexandros S
authors: AS
authors: Karakos
authors: Emmanouil
authors: E
authors: Anagnostou
authors: Vasileios
authors: V
authors: Danielides
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface