GROUP 6

GROUP MEMBERS:
Alfaro, Rosalyn
Purgatorio, Cedric John

CLINIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH RESPECT TO THE NORMAL CONDITION

Module 3: Integration and Deployment

1. Define integration in terms of components and interfaces.

The components of Clinic Management System are: Patient management, it can be used to
register them, get the data of the patients’ health condition, view the treatment and check the
medical history and reports. Appointment module arranges the schedule of doctors due to the
patients’ application. Inventory management module controls the amount of clinic inventory.
Accounting, it stores and presents all the patient payment details, clinic financial records on
expenses and overall profit. Medicine management, it keeps records of every patient’ drugs
used during their treatment.

Multiple user-specific visual interfaces are desirable in any computer-based clinic

management system that is used by different people with different jobs to perform. The
programming and maintenance problems of supporting multiple user interfaces to a single
information system can be addressed by separating user-interface functionality from data-
management subsystems.

2. Give examples of middleware platforms.

In Clinic Management System the middleware can function as a virtual data center for all
clinical data. Functional integration can be performed through a set of web services. Common
middleware examples include database middleware, application server middleware, message-
oriented middleware, web middleware, and transaction-processing monitors.

3. Discuss some advantages and disadvantages of some middleware platforms.

Advantages of middleware
Middleware enables the flow of real-time information access within the clinic system in
a network. It is also advantageous because of its range of use in a wide array of software
systems, from distributed objects and components, to mobile application support, to message-
oriented communication, and more.
Disadvantages of middleware
Its development cost is more expensive. It often threatens the real-time performance of a
clinic system. Too many platforms to be covered. Middleware tools are not efficient for optimal
operation yet.

4. Describe the major considerations for enterprise integration platform selection.

The major considerations for enterprise integration platform selection are:
Best-of-Breed Environment In clinic there is a departmental system and each one needs to
interact with the Electronic Health Record in the clinic as well as outpatient and referring
practices. Minimize Downtime In clinical environments, a common barrier to system adoption
and integration is disruption of an established care workflow. Keep the Patient in Mind The
ability for clinicians to make quick and informed decisions throughout the care cycle impacts
the quality of care and enables more cost-effective health delivery.

5. Give an example of integration using the “wrapper” approach.

In Clinic Management System an example of wrapper approach is in clinical decision making
that not only able to overcome the problem of data distortion, but also improves overall system
performance because its mechanism aims at effectively reducing the data size without
distortion, by keeping datasets balanced and technically smooth. This achievement directly
supports the Wrapper method of effective feature selection without the need to consider the
problem of huge amounts of data; this is a novel innovation in this work.

6. Give an example of integration using the “glue code” approach.

Automation of Clinic Management System in the form of “Glue” programming reduces the
barrier to fully automating treatment planning procedures, and shows great potential to
improve clinical efficiency and safety within the treatment planning workflow for special
procedures. This work shows both the value of incident learning systems (ILS) in practice
knowledge dissemination, and shows the how automation of clinical processes and less reliance
on human intervention has the potential for risk reduction.

7. Give an example of how a framework facilitates integration of components.

A framework will facilitate all the process that will occur in a clinic management system. It
will determine how the concept development of system for healthcare mainly focuses on the
different roles around a patient to provide different healthcare services and different activities
those roles are to play in order to provide services.
 8. Explain how the data warehouse concept relates to enterprise information
integration.
A data warehouse in clinic is a relational database that is designed for query and analysis
rather than for transaction processing. It usually contains historical data derived from
transaction data, but it can include data from other sources and depending on the problem to
be solved, integrated data will be persisted into a warehouse, or virtualized through enterprise
information integration that uses queries to collect and integrate data and content from
multiple sources.

9. Give examples of how testing and evaluation are impacted by integration choices.
We have not yet created a system therefore we do not know how the testing and
evaluation are impacted by integration choices.

10. Install and test an enterprise integration middleware platform.

The integration of clinic system profile promotes easier integration and more effective
communication across the overall arc of patient care, thereby improving workflow efficiency as
well as patient care. Platform middleware connects different application architectures. Some
technology firms operate using multiple application structures.

11. Develop a component and demonstrate its integration into an existing environment.
Designed as a turn-key Clinic Management System for the local private clinic environment,
CMS On-ramp provides low investment cost access for private solo or group practice HCPs. It
supports the administrative operations and clinical management of clinics, ranging from patient
registration and appointment, clinical documentation, prescriptions and dispensary to
inventory control.

12. Identify architecturally significant components in a deployment model.

Functional models describe clinic processes and the interaction of an information system
with its environment. In this work, three types of models are used to describe the functionality
of an information system: activity, use-cases, and sequence diagrams. Activity diagrams support
the logical modeling of clinic processes and workflows. Use cases are used to describe the
current as-is system and the to-be system being developed.
 13. Map a software architecture created in a design to a physical system architecture that
executes it.
The Clinic Management System is a window–based software architecture designed for
registration and management of the patient’s records and easy access of the records. The
system will be used to assist the register, doctors, lab technicians and chemist to store and
manage patient records and appointment in a clinic for easier access and reference. All these
activities are done routinely and would be cumbersome on the employees if done manually
hence need of an efficient easy to use management software that will help ease the workload
of employees in the clinic.

14. Explain why a pilot deployment is used prior to a system rollout.

Pilot deployment in clinic management system is used to prior a system rollout because the
purpose is to determine as best as possible under test conditions whether the deployment
satisfies the system.

15. Identify and explain the tasks involved in a system rollout to all user sites, including
consideration of user support issues.
The clinic management system organizes the stable functioning of daily tasks and
interactions. This is a special tool to support the smooth operating of the software components
that are vital for the clinic administration. The clinic records management software keeps a
track of all the operations, stores the users’ data, performs its analysis and generates the
reports. While considering the software innovations, the system needs to be designed to
support the structured data entry instead of the unstructured one.

16. Explain how enterprise integration approaches and best practices, such as the
Zachman Framework and ITIL, are used by an organization.
The application of Zachman framework is expected to provide reference to managing
complex business processes addressed to Clinic Management System development. Due to
complexity of applying Zachman framework, the article simplifies the framework into 3x3
matrix, according to 3 major perspectives that required by top management of clinic: planner
(scope), owner (enterprise model) and designer (system model). Those three perspectives later
are combined with dimension of data (what), function (how) and network (where), to map
missing domain in Clinic Management System development plan.
 17. Explain how standardized (ITIL, COBIT, ISO 20,000) purposes, components,
implementation issues, certification, and case studies are used in an organization.
ISO 20000 can help clinic management system benchmark its ITSM, improve services,
demonstrate its ability to meet customer requirements and create a framework for
independent system. ISO 20000 is a standard and code of practice, ITIL is a best practice
framework. It has a requirement for clinic system, ITIL has a guidance. The ISO 20000
organization structure has a few mandatory roles, ITIL has a great number of roles, functions,
processes and responsibilities described.