From Paper Based Clinical Practice Guidelines to Declarative Workflow Management

TY - JOUR

T1 - From Paper Based Clinical Practice Guidelines to Declarative Workflow Management

AU - Lyng, Karen Marie

AU - Hildebrandt, Thomas

AU - Mukkamala, Raghava Rao

PY - 2009/6/7

Y1 - 2009/6/7

N2 - We present a field study of oncology workflow, involving doctors, nurses and pharmacists at Danish hospitals and discuss the obstacles, enablers and challenges for the use of computer based clinical practice guidelines. Related to the CIGDec approach of Pesic and van der Aalst we then describe how a sub workflow can be described in a declarative workflow management system: the Resultmaker Online Consultant (ROC). The example demonstrates that declarative primitives allow to naturally extend the paper based flowchart to an executable model without introducing a complex cyclic control flow graph.

AB - We present a field study of oncology workflow, involving doctors, nurses and pharmacists at Danish hospitals and discuss the obstacles, enablers and challenges for the use of computer based clinical practice guidelines. Related to the CIGDec approach of Pesic and van der Aalst we then describe how a sub workflow can be described in a declarative workflow management system: the Resultmaker Online Consultant (ROC). The example demonstrates that declarative primitives allow to naturally extend the paper based flowchart to an executable model without introducing a complex cyclic control flow graph.

KW - Faculty of Science

KW - Process modelling

KW - clinical praxis guidelines

KW - health IT

KW - business process management

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-00328-8_34

DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-00328-8_34

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1865-1348

VL - 17

SP - 336

EP - 347

JO - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

JF - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

ER -