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Distributed Ad Hoc Cooperation in Healthcare

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Book cover Process Support and Knowledge Representation in Health Care (ProHealth 2012, KR4HC 2012)

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Abstract

Inter-institutional cooperation among physicians becomes increasingly important. Yet, it is unrealistic to assume that cooperation can be supported via a homogeneous system that is pre-installed in every organization. Instead, physicians will typically have their own autonomous systems that support internal processes. Traditional activity-oriented workflow platforms do not resolve inter-institutional integration challenges. This paper presents an approach for distributed process management, which enables ad hoc cooperation via active electronic documents without the need to integrate local systems. A distributed case file is used to coordinate cooperating parties. Using this case file does not require any preinstalled system components, so genuine ad hoc information exchange is enabled.

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    Christoph P. Neumann & Richard Lenz

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, Data Management, University of Erlangen and Nuremberg, Martensstr. 3, 91058, Erlangen, Germany

    Richard Lenz

  2. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Information and Software Engineering Gruop, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 9-11, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Silvia Miksch

  3. Faculty of Social Sciences, Dept. of Information Systems, University of Haifa, Rabin Bldg., room 7049, 31905, Haifa, Israel

    Mor Peleg

  4. Institute of Databases and Information Systems, Ulm University, Building 027 # room 524, James-Tranck-Ring, 89069, Ulm, Germany

    Manfred Reichert

  5. Dept. d’Enginyeria Informàtica i Matimàtiques, Research Group on Artificial Intelligence, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Av. Països Catalans 26, 43007, Tarragona, Spain

    David Riaño

  6. Dept. of AI, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Gruop, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081A, 1081HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Annette ten Teije

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Neumann, C.P., Lenz, R. (2013). Distributed Ad Hoc Cooperation in Healthcare. In: Lenz, R., Miksch, S., Peleg, M., Reichert, M., Riaño, D., ten Teije, A. (eds) Process Support and Knowledge Representation in Health Care. ProHealth KR4HC 2012 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7738. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36438-9_8

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