Integration of information systems: assessing its quality.

Area of Science:

• Health Informatics
• Information Systems Engineering

Background:

• The increasing need for information systems integration in healthcare, driven by organizational and technological changes.
• The immaturity of current integration methodologies despite advancements in technical integration means.
• The lack of systematic approaches to deriving integration requirements and verifying their fulfillment in integrated systems.

Purpose of the Study:

• To present a structured method for deriving integration requirements from business process models.
• To provide a framework for assessing the integration quality of healthcare information systems.
• To address critical gaps in systems integration methodologies within the healthcare domain.

Main Methods:

• A nine-step method for deriving integration requirements from business process models.
• Quality assessment of integrated systems against derived requirements.
• Demonstration through two case studies in the healthcare sector.

Main Results:

• A systematic approach to defining integration requirements based on business processes.
• A method for evaluating the quality of integrated healthcare information systems.
• Practical application and validation of the proposed method in real-world healthcare scenarios.

Conclusions:

• The proposed method offers a systematic way to derive and assess integration requirements for healthcare information systems.
• Addressing these requirements is essential for improving the quality of integrated systems.
• The study contributes a practical framework for enhancing healthcare information systems integration.