Figure 13-35 is an activity diagram for the use case Enter new patient information in the dental clinic system. Do the following:
a. Develop a first-cut sequence diagram that only includes the actor and problem domain classes.
b. Develop a design class diagram based on the domain class diagram.
Dental Clinic System
A clinic with three dentists and several dental hygienists needs a system to help administer patient records. This system does not keep any medical records. It only processes patient administration. Each patient has a record with his or her name, date of birth, gender, date of first visit, and date of last visit. Patient records are grouped together under a household. A household has attributes such as name of head of household, address, and telephone number. Each household is also associated with an insurance carrier record. The insurance carrier record contains name of insurance company, address, billing contact person, and telephone number.
In the clinic, each dental staff person also has a record that tracks who works with a patient (dentist, dental hygienist, x-ray technician). Because the system focuses on patient administration records, only minimal information is kept about each dental staff person, such as name, address, and telephone number. Information is maintained about each office visit, such as date, insurance copay amount (amount paid by the patient), paid code, and amount actually paid. Each visit is for a single patient, but, of course, a patient will have many office visits in the system. During each visit, more than one dental staff person may be involved by doing a procedure. For example, the x-ray technician, dentist, and dental hygienist may all be involved on a single visit. In fact, some dentists are specialists in such things as crown work, and even multiple dentists may be involved with a patient. For each staff person does procedure in a visit combination (many-to-many), detailed information is kept about the procedure. This information includes the type of procedure, a description, the tooth involved, the copay amount, the total charge, the amount paid, and the amount the insurance company denied.