Law Architecture for Regulatory-Compliant Public Enterprise Model: A Focus on Healthcare Reform in Egypt

Abstract

Public business operations are governed by a set of legal sources, which regulate their implementation under administrative laws that are increasingly influencing software system design and development. Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a critical approach for driving business and Information Systems (IS) transformation in the public sector. On the other hand, EA frameworks lack representation schemas that support law models. Understanding of the law Architecture in the government domain is required for EA work and is thus the first architecture activity that must be completed. As EA approaches for Law compliance reviews are performed by legal experts, there is a gap between law experts and technical system architects. To cover these gaps, this paper proposes a novel framework for analyzing the administrative laws, extracting the legal policies and legal rules, identify their relationships with other EA domains, and identifying the law compliance requirements. Moreover, the integration of our proposed law architecture framework with existing EA frameworks to reach a law-compliant public enterprise model is identified. Finally, the applicability of the proposed framework is shown and validated through a case study. Moreover, subject matter experts of the legal domain also evaluated the extracted legal policies and rules during the implementation of our proposed framework.