Object-oriented model of a health care system

Author

Krol, Marina ; Reich, David L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai Med. Center, New York, NY, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

12-14 Jun 1998

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

43

Abstract

Proposes a prototype for a universal object-oriented model of a health care system in a fashion similar to the object-oriented approach used for development in version 3.0 of the HL7 standard for communication messages. In our model, all participants of the health care system are described as belonging to one of the object classes Patient, Medical Provider, Medical Knowledge Base and Medical Insurance, along with their associations, attributes and operators. These superclasses are further divided into more specific subclasses. We have also selected two major independent processes within medical services: Cure and Billing/Payment. This model is intended to supplement the HL7 standard. Individual HL7 models may be used as functional and dynamic subsystems describing particular relationships among health care system objects, introduced in the presented model

Keywords

abstract data types; health care; insurance data processing; medical administrative data processing; object-oriented methods; standards; HL7 standard; associations; attributes; billing; dynamic subsystems; functional subsystems; health care system; medical insurance; medical knowledge base; medical providers; medical services; object classes; operators; patient cure; patients; payment; subclasses; superclasses; universal object-oriented model; Application software; Communication standards; Hospitals; Insurance; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Medical treatment; Object oriented modeling; Prototypes; Standards development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1998. Proceedings. 11th IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Lubbock, TX

ISSN

1063-7125

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8564-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.1998.701221

Filename

701221