HEALTHCARE
DFD Level 1: Hospital Appointment Scheduling
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CASE ANALYSIS
Scenario
A hospital needs a system to allow patients to schedule appointments with doctors. The DFD Level 1 models the data flows between patients, scheduling staff, doctor schedules, and appointment records.
Key decisions
- Whether to check doctor availability in real time or via a batch process
- How to handle overlapping appointments
- Balancing load among doctors
When to reuse this
When you need to represent the high-level data flows in a patient scheduling system, showing interactions between external entities and data stores.
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