Adaptive Medical Workflow Management for a Context-Dependent Home Healthcare Assistance Service

Ardissono, Liliana; Leva, Antonio Di; Petrone, G.; Segnan, Marino; Sonnessa, Michele

doi:10.1016/j.entcs.2005.11.007

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“…However, research in healthcare workflow is still in its infancy, facing many new challenges that are characteristics of the healthcare domain [2,34]. To address the challenge of evolving patient conditions, the notion of adaptive workflows was proposed with support of context-aware activities [36], process adaptivity [37,38], and exception handling [39]. Reijers et al extended previous work on workflow and flexibility patterns and presented a methodology to discover, explore, select, and realize processes that possess the required degree of flexibility in the healthcare domain [40].…”

Section: Healthcare Workflow Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transforming sterile processing departments by service-oriented business process management

Yang

2013

IJBPIM

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One major cause that dramatically impacts patient safety is the use of unclean reusable medical equipment (RME), delivered from a sterile processing department (SPD). Unfortunately, current reprocessing practice is mostly driven by human labor and control, which is error-prone and inefficient. In this paper, business process management is proposed to support modeling, automating, monitoring, and analyzing sterile reprocessing procedures. The main contributions are: i) identifying the main factors in the current practice that compromise patient safety; ii) proposing a Service-Oriented business process modeling framework to publish, discover, reuse, and compose interoperable services for different purposes; iii) promoting healthcare workflow to control the execution status and identifying the key architectural requirements for a healthcare workflow system; iv) proposing a service-oriented architecture and validating it with our SPD workflow prototyping system, SPDFLOW. To our best knowledge, SPDFLOW is the first effort in exploring healthcare workflow technology in the SPD domain.

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Section: Healthcare Workflow Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transforming sterile processing departments by service-oriented business process management

Yang

2013

IJBPIM

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“…In recent years, WMSes have been applied to medical environments. Several experimental workflow systems have been proposed for helping in carrying out diagnosis [4], treatment/therapy [6], [12] and for management in hospital administration [5], [11].…”

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“…The notion of workflow as an ordered collection of tasks can be used for modeling several aspects of a medical environment. Workflow systems have been used for capturing diagnosis [4], therapy/treatment [6], [12], and hospital administration [5], [11]. Workflow specifications capture the responsibilities and obligations that entities have to fulfil.…”

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Personalising Situated Workflow Systems for Pervasive Healthcare Applications

Russello¹,

Dong²,

Dulay³

2008

The Proceedings of the Second ICST International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

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In this paper, we present an approach where a workflow system is combined with a policy-based framework for the specification and enforcement of policies for healthcare applications. In our approach, workflows are used to capture entities' responsibilities and to assist entities in fulfilling them. The policy-based framework allows us to express authorisation policies to define the rights that entities have in the system, and event-condition-action (ECA) policies that are used to adapt the system to the actual situation. Authorisations will often depend on the context in which patients' care takes place, and our policies support predicates that reflect the environment. ECA policies capture events that reflect the current state of the environment and can perform actions to accordingly adapt the workflow execution. We show how the approach can be used for the Edema treatment and how fine-grained authorisation and ECA policies are expressed and used.

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“…Workflow system are well established within medical environments since they have been used for diagnosis [3], therapy/treatment [12,23], and hospital administration [11,21].…”

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A Workflow-Based Access Control Framework for e-Health Applications

Russello

Dong

Dulay

2008

22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Workshops (Aina Workshops 2008)

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In this paper, we present a framework where access rights are provided to entities on the basis of the actual task that the entities must fulfill as part of their duties. For capturing the requirements of entities' duties we use the notion of workflow. Our main aim is to provide an access control mechanism that is able to balance the competing goals of flexibility and security. As the main beneficiary of our approach we consider e-Health Applications, where flexibility and security are major requirements. We also provide an implementation of a medical case study to illustrate the framework.

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Adaptive Medical Workflow Management for a Context-Dependent Home Healthcare Assistance Service

Cited by 32 publications

References 5 publications

Transforming sterile processing departments by service-oriented business process management

Transforming sterile processing departments by service-oriented business process management

Personalising Situated Workflow Systems for Pervasive Healthcare Applications

A Workflow-Based Access Control Framework for e-Health Applications

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