Paper Info
Title
Knowledge-Centric Management of Business Rules in a Pharmacy.
Abstract
A business rule defines or constraints some aspect of the business. In healthcare sector many of the business rules are dictated by law or medical regulations, which are constantly changing. This is a challenge for the healthcare organizations. Although there is available several commercial business rule management systems the problem from pharmacies point of view is that these systems are overly geared towards the automation and manipulation of business rules, while the main need in pharmacies lies in easy retrieving of business rules within daily routines. Another problem is that business rule management systems are isolated in the sense that they have their own data stores that cannot be accessed by other information systems used in pharmacies. As a result, a pharmacist is burdened by accessing many systems inside a user task. In order to avoid this problem we have modeled business rules as well as their relationships to other relevant information by OWL (Web Ontology Language) such that the ontology is shared among the pharmacy's applications. In this way we can avoid the problems of isolated applications and replicated data. The ontology also encourages pharmacies business agility, i.e., the ability to react more rapidly to the changes required by the new business rules. The deployment of the ontology requires that stored business rules are annotated by appropriate metadata descriptions, which are presented by RDF/XML serialization format. However, neither the designer nor the pharmacists are burdened by RDF/XML format as there are sophisticated graphical editors that can be used.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-16699-0_13
ADVANCES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Keywords
Field
DocType
Ontologies,Business rules,Knowledge management,Business agility,Knowledge centric organization
Artifact-centric business process model,Business process management,Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules,Computer science,Knowledge management,Business agility,Business process modeling,Business rule management system,Business Process Model and Notation,Business rule
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
114
1865-0929
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juha Puustjärvi111122.64
Leena Puustjärvi23711.86