Literature review

During the Christmas holiday I really started with the search for relevant literature on my topic. Before that time I already made a start with the literature search but I was very busy with finishing my last master courses. Although those courses are not completed yet, the major part is done so I can start focusing on my literature review.

To be honest it has been proven a bit harder than expected... In the beginning I found that it was difficult to find articles that were both free of charge and relevant to my topic. Lucky enough I realized that the TU/e probably would have an account on the websites so that the articles would be free of charge. Due to making use of keywords I could find relevant articles. On this stage probably I did not find all of them but a good start is made and the Dutch have a nice saying: ‘Al doende, leert men’. ;-)

The main parts on the Hospital Information Systems part that I will try to describe in my literature review are: the history of the HIS, which requirements are contained in HIS, why would hospitals want to invest in HIS, and how are HIS chosen on this moment.

On the selection of HIS part I will try to describe which modeling tools are suitable, (and if for example feature modeling is the appropriate tool) what is feature modeling, which requirements are required for the modeling tool, and which program is the best for the HIS selection.

These are the main parts that I will focus on during my literature review as I believe that they are key issues to address. If other important issues will arise during reading the articles I will takes these into account.


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