Title :
A model driven engineering approach for business continuity management in e-Health systems
Author :
Rejeb, Olfa ; Bastide, Rémi ; Lamine, Elyes ; Marmier, François ; Pingaud, Hervé
Author_Institution :
CGI, Univ. de Toulouse - Mines d´´Albi, Albi, France
Abstract :
Nowadays e-Health systems recognize the benefits of new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the delivery of healthcare services. While these modern technologies have enhanced practices in the healthcare sector, the potential of failures to interrupt a process is still important. This risk of system downtime may induce significant impacts on patient safety. Thus, ensuring business resilience has proven to be increasingly challenging as the healthcare field employs more ICT applications and all signs for the future point to even more reliance on digital data. In this context, we propose an approach based on Business Continuity Management (BCM) to ensure the ability to operate in spite of unforeseen events and to quickly recover from any type of business interruption. The basic purpose of this paper is to define a formal description of a Business Continuity Plan (BCP), following an approach grounded in Model-Driven Engineering (MDE).
Keywords :
business continuity; formal specification; health care; medical administrative data processing; business continuity management; business continuity plan; e-health systems; formal description; healthcare sector; healthcare services; information and communication technology; model driven engineering approach; patient safety; system downtime; Business continuity; Computers; Medical services; Organizations; Standards organizations; Unified modeling language; Business Continuity Plan; Meta-Model; Model; Model Driven Engineering; e-Health;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Ecosystems Technologies (DEST), 2012 6th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Campione d´Italia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1702-3
Electronic_ISBN :
2150-4938
DOI :
10.1109/DEST.2012.6227931