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What BPM Technology Can Do for Healthcare Process Support

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2011)

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Healthcare organizations are facing the challenge of delivering personalized services to their patients in a cost-effective and efficient manner. This, in turn, requires advanced IT support for healthcare processes covering both organizational procedures and knowledge-intensive, dynamic treatment processes. Nowadays, required agility is often hindered by a lack of flexibility in hospital information systems. To overcome this inflexibility a new generation of information systems, denoted as process-aware information systems (PAISs), has emerged. In contrast to data- and function-centered information systems, a PAIS separates process logic from application code and thus provides an additional architectural layer. However, the introduction of process-aware hospital information systems must neither result in rigidity nor restrict staff members in their daily work. This keynote presentation reflects on recent developments from the business process management (BPM) domain, which enable process adaptation, process flexibility, and process evolution. These key features will be illustrated along existing BPM frameworks. Altogether, emerging BPM methods, concepts and technologies will contribute to further enhance IT support for healthcare processes.

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  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Ca’ Vignal 2, strada le Grazie 15, 37134, Verona, Italy

    Carlo Combi

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Reichert, M. (2011). What BPM Technology Can Do for Healthcare Process Support. In: Peleg, M., Lavrač, N., Combi, C. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. AIME 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6747. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22218-4_2

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