A Petri net based model of patient-flows in a progressive patient-care system

Hughes, Michelle; Carson, Ewart R.; Makhlouf, Mohamed; Morgan, Cliff; Summers, Ron

doi:10.1109/iembs.1998.746134

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“…For instance, Colored PN (CPN) are employed by Hughes et al [25], Jansen Vullers and Reijers [28], Jørgensen et al [30] for modelling and designing healthcare systems. In addition, Fanti et al [19] use CPN to model and simulate alarm protocol workflow in healthcare.…”

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Discrete event systems models and methods for different problems in healthcare management

Fanti

Ukovich

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA)

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The rapidly growing of the world's population makes efficient Healthcare System (HS) management more and more important to all stakeholders, from patients and healthcare providers, to insurance companies and governments. The use of advanced information and networking technologies to advance health care management has long been recognized as the most effective way. Hence, healthcare organizations are often compared with manufacturing systems, and techniques and models from production systems are adapted to solve healthcare management problems. This paper presents a review about the relevant approaches in the related literature to model and simulate HSs with particular focus on discrete event system approaches. In particular, some works are recalled with more detail to show the integrated use of different formalisms in order to model and manage conventional HSs (e.g., hospital departments) as well as novel healthcare paradigms, like health at home and electronic health. © 2014 IEEE

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Discrete event systems models and methods for different problems in healthcare management

Fanti

Ukovich

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA)

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“…Mans [26] presented the use of workflow and its challenges in the health care domain. Hughes et al [15] use Petri nets for planning and resource management in healthcare systems. Patient flows are modelled to provide healthcare managers with relevant information about requirements of new healthcare facilities and performance evaluation of existing facilities.…”

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Treatment pathways as petri nets in patient workflow management

Boudko

Leister

2017

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications &Amp; Services

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The healthcare market demands more advanced and flexible solutions to provide better care for patients. Moving medical services closer to patients improves the quality of healthcare but brings, at the same time, new challenges. It requires a well-functioning, decentralized infrastructure and better workflow support for health personnel. Therefore, we need to provide consistency for this type of services with patient data accessed and processed by several healthcare stakeholders.In the paper, we present how Petri net-based workflow technology can be used to design flexible treatment pathways, and to coordinate the treatment process in a distributed way among several healthcare workers. We have implemented a system that supports consistency for distributed healthcare and integrates the treatment workflows into a healthcare workflow system. We use a clinical health care example to illustrate the workflow.

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