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A User-Centered, Object-Oriented Methodology for Developing Health Information Systems: A Clinical Information System (CIS) Example

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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.

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  1. ENT (Ear Nose Throat) Department, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

    Georgios Konstantinidis & Vasileios Danielides

  2. Medical Informatics Laboratory, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

    George C. Anastassopoulos

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece

    Alexandros S. Karakos

  4. ENT (Ear Nose Throat) Department, Nikaia General Hospital, Piraeus, Greece

    Emmanouil Anagnostou

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Konstantinidis, G., Anastassopoulos, G.C., Karakos, A.S. et al. A User-Centered, Object-Oriented Methodology for Developing Health Information Systems: A Clinical Information System (CIS) Example. J Med Syst 36, 437–450 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-010-9488-x

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