New CenturyWellness Group

New Century Wellness Group offers a holistic approach to healthcare with an emphasis on preventive medicine as well as traditional medical care. In your role as an IT consultant, you will help New Century develop a new information system.

Background

You began the systems analysis phase at New Century by completing a series of interviews, re· viewing existing reports, and observing office operations. Then, in Chapter 5, you acquired more information and developed a set of DFDs, process descriptions, and a data dictionary. The next step in the SDLC is to perform an object-oriented analysis of the new system. Before you begin, go back and review the organization chart and processes list from Chapter 1, and the diagrams data store list from Chapter 5. Then complete the following tasks.

Tasks

1. Identify possible use cases and actors, and create a use case diagram for the New Century Wellness Group system.

2. Select one of the use cases and create a class diagram.

3. Create a sequence diagram for the use case that you selected.

4. Create a state transition diagram that describes typical patient states and how they change based on specific actions and events.