A mobile e-health system based on workflow automation tools

Abstract

This paper describes the patient record manager and the workflow toolset of the wireless-based e-health system Ward-In-Hand, developed in a European IST (Information Society Technologies) project and currently in use within three hospital wards, in Italy, Spain and Germany. The lack of homogeneity in the healthcare organisations required a suitable implementation of workflow automation tools to create and manage the execution of the care-giving processes, customising them to local ward needs. Solutions for this problem, as well as the integration of the workflow organiser (to be used by individual health professionals during their daily activities) with the patient record manager are discussed.