UML profile for MIF static models

Abstract

This article summarizes our contribution to the 2012-2013 HL7 Tooling Challenge “Produce a UML Profile for MIF Static Models”. The main goal of the profile is to enable the representation in UML of the MIF static models. This representation allows all members of the large software engineering community to understand those models without requiring additional training. Furthermore, the healthcare community can benefit from existing UML-based modeling tools and methodologies. Among others, there are tools that generate a significant part of the final code of a software system from its UML model. In what follows, we first briefly describe the proposed profile, and then we illustrate its use by means of a small example in the transformation of MIF models into equivalent UML models.