Enterprise Architecture to Identify the Benefits of Enterprise Building Information Model Data: An Example from Healthcare Operations

Abstract

This paper explores the concept of Enterprise Building Information Models in a hospital and how they could be used in combination with Enterprise Architecture to support innovation in healthcare operations. The motivation for this work has been to improve the use of easily available data for creating new value-added services that could make an enterprise more flexible and agile. Enterprise Architecture has been used as the approach for structuring and visualising how the data in the Building Information Models can be utilised in combination with other data and applications in a hospital to identify potential new services for the benefit of multiple stakeholders. In this paper, we have considered Enterprise Building Information Models as analogous to the concept of data exchanges identified in some Enterprise Architecture frameworks and use Enterprise Architecture models to describe a business case based on a dynamic scheduling algorithm for cleaning. The main contribution of this work is an Enterprise Architecture model of the hospital, which relates data in Building Information Models to strategic and operational processes.