The concept of the information system for managing business processes of designing and manufacturing of osteofixation material Dragan Mišić * , Miloš Stojković * , Nikola Vitković * , Miroslav Trajanović * , Miodrag Manić * , Nikola Korunović * , Jelena Milovanović * * Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Nis, Serbia misicdr@gmail.com , milos.stojkovich@gmail.com , nvitko@gmail.com , miroslav.trajanovic@masfak.ni.ac.rs , miodrag.manich@gmail.com , korunovic.nikola@gmail.com , jeka.milovanovic@gmail.com Abstract— One of the characteristics of modern production is adapting products to specific customer requirements. This principle is applied in the industry for some time, but this is not the case in medicine. The idea behind the information system described in this paper is to support, improve and accelerate manufacturing of medical supplies, which are adapted to the patients (customers). This IS will be applied in process of design and manufacturing of osteofixation material, in order to obtain high-quality products customized to the individual needs of patients. The MD system for business process management, developed at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, will be used as a tool for the implementation and integration of the various activities in this processes. I. INTRODUCTION The project VIHOS (Virtual human osteoarticular system and its application in preclinical and clinical practice) [1] is focused on developing various tools that ought to help doctors and engineers in specific segments of their work. The project deals with the development of geometrical and simulation models of human bones, internal and external fixators and the scaffolds. Also, project addresses development of mathematical parametric models that, based on different types of radiology images which come from doctors, generate the aforementioned models. Developing software which can be used as assistance with planning orthopedic operations is also one of project's goals. These tools are in fact independent software modules, often developed by using different software packages or in different programming languages. One part of the project mentioned above refers to creation of the production environment which will enable mentioned services to be used and contribute to improving the quality of services which are offered in orthopedics. Due to variety of applied techniques and tools, the main problem with defining information system which would try to automate this process is integration of different software solutions. By analyzing researches related to integration of information systems used in medical facilities and enterprises which manufacture medical equipment, we realized that there are very few papers dealing with this subject. When talking about use of information systems in medicine, it's mainly referred to Health IS. Health Information System (HIS) are dealing with processing data, information and knowledge in health care environments [2]. These systems deal with information flow in medical facilities, but they are rarely connected to information systems of companies that make equipment used in hospitals. In [3], for example, is described integration in medicine manufacturing enterprises. They recommend use of SOA and RFID integration technologies. Some authors are trying to apply Supply chain management technologies in health care [4]. Those authors emphasize the fact that supply chain management in a health care setting is characterized by some unique features, which make it difficult to transfer knowledge from the industrial sector to a health care sector in a direct way. The authors conclude that existing concepts, models and supply chain practices can be extended to supply chain management in health services and existing research underpins the assumption that the health sector can benefit from the lessons learned in the industrial sector. In this paper, we described integration of parts of information system in hospital (orthopedical clinic) and enterprise(s) that manufacture osteofixation material. Because of its flexibility, we chose Business Process Management System technology (BPMS) to be the tool for integration [5]. The flexibility which BPMS offer can be noticed in several aspects. These systems provide a very simple way of creating business process model, which is later used to execute particular instances. On that occasion there is no need for any coding, so even the person without any programming experience is able to define and change the model. The activities which are executed within process instance can be automatic and manual. Automatic activities are those that BPMS automatically executes by calling third-party software modules, while manual activities are executed by people (process participants). The processes referred to in this particular case use both automatic and manual activities. So far we have automated parts of process for which developed software exists (such as generating geometrical models of human bones based on radiology images coming from hospital), while manual activities will be used for those parts of process that are not yet automated. Page 10 of 478 ICIST 2014 - Vol. 1 Regular papers