A guide for the application of analytics on healthcare processes: A dynamic view on patient pathways

Abstract

Process analytics offers new insights into the medical services patients follow, how medical resources relate to each other and whether patients and healthcare processes comply with guidelines and regulations.

Mapping the Flow of Pediatric Trauma Patients Using Process Mining

“…We adapted and incorporated Lismont et al's 25 process mining methodology, which uses an iterative approach to tackle the peculiarities of health care data. The overview of our study design is depicted in ►Fig.…”

A Process Mining and Text Analysis Approach to Analyse the Extent of Polypharmacy in Medical Prescribing

“…A particular problem faced in process mining in healthcare contexts is that processes tend to be complex and dynamic, involve multiple disciplines or departments, and may be adhoc [40], [29], allowing many variants. Process discovery then results in so-called 'spaghetti' models [50], [15] -too complex to interpret or visualise.…”

A Multi-Criteria Process Mining Optimization Tool and Its Application in a Sepsis Clinical Pathway

“…It allows for automatically identifying process models (process discovery), recognizing the adherence in the execution of a process (conformance checking), identifying performance metrics (performance checking), besides many other applications. We identified only two studies [Caron et al, 2014;Lismont et al, 2016] that applied existing process mining techniques to help in the evaluation and management of CPs. Hence, our second objective in this thesis is to demonstrate that the use of a set of process mining techniques is helpful in the evaluation of a sepsis CP.…”

“…Hence, our second objective in this thesis is to demonstrate that the use of a set of process mining techniques is helpful in the evaluation of a sepsis CP. Differently from these two studies [Caron et al, 2014;Lismont et al, 2016], in our research, we selected and employed process mining techniques to tackle real needs and challenges identified from a Brazilian hospital. In addition, we validated the outcomes and their utility with a panel of experts.…”