Understanding Gap Analyses of Clinical Information System Requirements

This paper draws an inference from a conventional approach that compares client system requirements with another successful CIS platform to bridge the gaps for a system upgrade. It also extrapolates on the inevitability of using the ISO/IEC 25010:2011 framework in designing an evidence-based gap analysis for clinical information system requirement transformation projects. In the conventional approach, the client’s requirements are categorized as functional, non-functional, external interface, user-requirements, or business requirements for comparison against another client with similar requirements in its CIS platform. In the quality model framework (ISO/IEC 25010:2011), criteria are used as a benchmark to measure the degree of gaps in the requirements for any CIS platform that requires an upgrade. The conventional approach may or may not provide upgraded features based on the CIS to which the client requirements were compared. In the quality model framework approach, the criteria are scientifically tested and approved for the CIS requirement deployment by a software engineering standard organization (ISO).