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Using Unified Modeling Language to Analyze Business Processes in the Delivery of Child Health Services

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  • Fabrizio Pecoraro

    (Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, National Research Council, 00185 Rome, Italy)

  • Daniela Luzi

    (Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, National Research Council, 00185 Rome, Italy)

Abstract

Business Process Management (BPM) has been increasingly used in recent years in the healthcare domain to analyze, optimize, harmonize and compare clinical and healthcare processes. The main aim of this methodology is to model the interactions between medical and organizational activities needed to deliver health services, measure their complexity, variability and deviations to improve the quality of care and its efficiency. Among the different tools, languages and notations developed in the decades, UML (Unified Modeling Language) represents a widely adopted technique to model, analyze and compare business processes in healthcare. We adopted its diagrams in the MOCHA project to compare the different ways of organizing, coordinating and delivering child care across 30 EU/EEA countries both from an organization and control-flow perspectives. This paper provides an overview of the main components used to represent the business process using UML diagrams, also highlighting how we customized them to capture the specificity of the healthcare domain taking into account that processes are reconstructed on the basis of country experts’ responses to questionnaires. The benefits of the application of this methodology are demonstrated by providing examples of comparing different aspects of child care.

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  • Fabrizio Pecoraro & Daniela Luzi, 2022. "Using Unified Modeling Language to Analyze Business Processes in the Delivery of Child Health Services," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(20), pages 1-14, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:20:p:13456-:d:945629
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    1. Christos Vasilakis & Dorota Lecnzarowicz & Chooi Lee, 2008. "Application of Unified Modelling Language (UML) to the Modelling of Health Care Systems: An Introduction and Literature Survey," International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (IJHISI), IGI Global, vol. 3(4), pages 39-52, October.
    2. Cristina Venera GEAMBASU, 2012. "BPMN vs. UML Activity Diagram for Business Process Modeling," Journal of Accounting and Management Information Systems, Faculty of Accounting and Management Information Systems, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, vol. 11(4), pages 637-651, December.
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