Title
Ontology-Based Assessment of Functional Redundancy in Health Information Systems
Abstract
The paper introduces a formal definition of functional redundancy to determine non-redundant health information system architectures, in order to support information management of, in particular, hospital information systems. We specify an ontology, which is linked to the Three-Layer Graph-Based Meta Model (3LGM2) and based on enterprise functions and application systems of (health) information systems. A so called functional redundancy rate (FRR) is introduced and elucidated by an example. An algorithm for calculating non redundant health information system architectures is presented. Functional redundancy is a key performance indicator for the quality and efficiency of (health) information systems. With FRR it can now be formally described and quantitatively analyzed. Using 3LGM2 based models of information systems, the calculation of FRR does not need further efforts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-642-01648-6_23
MoDELS Workshops
Keywords
DocType
Volume
functional redundancy,functional redundancy rate,non-redundant health information system,three-layer graph-based meta model,health information systems,information system,system architecture,application system,non redundant health information,hospital information system,information management,ontology-based assessment,key performance indicator,meta model,health information system
Conference
5421
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alfred Winter15713.15
Alexander Strübing200.34
Lutz Ißler311.37
Birgit Brigl4276.26
Reinhold Haux5835130.34