Towards a Pathway-Based Clinical Cancer Registration in Hospital Information Systems

The clinical cancer registration constitutes a major source of data used to support the cancer research. However, providing data to cancer registries usually requires additional effort, as the automated extraction of the required data from the already existing clinical documentation is often not possible. In this paper, we show how the conceptual models of clinical pathways CPs, created using the domain-specific modeling language extended with the data models reconstructed based on the common oncological basic data set, can support a model-based design and development of process-oriented hospital information systems and contribute to enhancing the data-quality and efficiency of clinical cancer registration.