Significant conceptual modelling-a health care enterprise case study

Nowadays we are facing a social transition indicating a new reality for our lives and businesses: the competitive approach is globally presented. These "new" approaches show a challenge in modelling implicit knowledge from whatever available data and information, and in the use of that knowledge for timely decision making. To face this challenge organizations need information systems capable to support knowledge dissemination and management. We present a case study in which our proposed process of modelling, called significant conceptual modelling is applied to the business domain in a health care enterprise. We show significant conceptual modelling as a suitable approach to help business analysts in data mart modelling. The proposed process promotes a uniform representation of an organization\´s business rules allowing good quality results in knowledge discovery and management processes to support decision making processes