TY - GEN
T1 - A hybrid multi-layered approach to the integration of workflow and clinical guideline approaches
AU - Terenziani, Paolo
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In BPM, several formalisms have been proposed to model Workflows. Almost independently, several formalisms have been developed to model clinical practice guidelines (CPG). Since the increasing informatization of healthcare processes is demanding for an integrated treatment of medical activities, some approaches have started to fill the gap between the Workflow and CPG areas. In most cases, such approaches have tried to adapt and/or extend one of the formalisms (either a Workflow or a CPG formalism) in order to cope with the whole set of phenomena. In this position paper, we argue in favor of an alternative hybrid approach, in which a CPG approach is used to focus on "physician-oriented" issues, a Workflow approach is used to cope with the related "business- oriented" issues, and the integration of them is obtained at the underlying semantic level, where general inferential mechanisms operate.
AB - In BPM, several formalisms have been proposed to model Workflows. Almost independently, several formalisms have been developed to model clinical practice guidelines (CPG). Since the increasing informatization of healthcare processes is demanding for an integrated treatment of medical activities, some approaches have started to fill the gap between the Workflow and CPG areas. In most cases, such approaches have tried to adapt and/or extend one of the formalisms (either a Workflow or a CPG formalism) in order to cope with the whole set of phenomena. In this position paper, we argue in favor of an alternative hybrid approach, in which a CPG approach is used to focus on "physician-oriented" issues, a Workflow approach is used to cope with the related "business- oriented" issues, and the integration of them is obtained at the underlying semantic level, where general inferential mechanisms operate.
KW - Clinical Practice Guidelines
KW - Integration
KW - Workflows
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77954011948&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-12186-9_52
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-12186-9_52
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77954011948
SN - 3642121853
SN - 9783642121852
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 539
EP - 544
BT - Business Process Management Workshops - BPM 2009 International Workshops, Revised Papers
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - Business Process Management Workshops - BPM 2009 International Workshops
Y2 - 7 September 2009 through 7 September 2009
ER -