A Model-Driven Architecture Approach for Developing Healthcare ERP: Case study in Morocco
This work addresses inefficiencies in healthcare ERP development for hospitals in Morocco, but it is incremental as it applies existing model-driven methods to a specific domain.
The paper tackles the problem of frequent code modifications and inefficiency in healthcare ERP systems in Moroccan hospitals by proposing a model-driven architecture approach using UML class diagrams and transformation rules to automatically generate code, resulting in improved software development efficiency.
Nowadays, there are many problems in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implemented in the majority of hospitals in Morocco such as the difficulty of adaptation by the different users, the lack of several functionalities, errors that block the daily work, etc. All these problems require frequent modifications in the code, which implies a high effort to develop healthcare ERP as one of complex systems. In this paper, we are going to present a model-driven approach for developing healthcare ERP based on class diagram. First, we constitute the independent model using UML, define the transformation rules then apply them on our source model class to generate at the end an XML file that will be necessary for the ERP code. Our approach will not only resolve the above problems, but also improve the efficiency of software development through the automatically generated code.