Knowledge framework for clinical processes architecture and analysis

Abstract

Last decades have introduced different improvements into healthcare information systems domain including features like open interfaces to clinical facilities, improved patients registers, connectivity to insurance companies, and clinical pathways and workflows. The last named - clinical pathways and workflows - is a part of a complex area known as process modeling and architecture and except the control and management it also offers additional advantages like process optimization, re-engineering, analysis, and automatized process execution. This paper discusses application of explicit knowledge profiles based on process meta-model within clinical processes, alignment with visual process modeling, and further analysis with simulation and reverse engineering methods.