New methods for clinical pathways—Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and Tangible Business Process Modeling (t.BPM)

Abstract

BPMN and t.BPM are sufficiently suitable for the planned modelling and imaging of CP. The application in medicine is new, and transfer from the industrial process management is in principle possible. BPMN-CP may be used for teaching and training, patient information and quality management. The graphical image is clearly structured and appealing. Even though the efficiency in the creation of BPMN-CP increases markedly after the training phase, high amounts of manpower and time are required. The most sensible and consequent application of a BPMN-CP would be the direct integration into the hospital computer system. The integration of a modelling language, such as BPMN, into the hospital computer systems could be a very sensible approach for the development of new hospital information systems in the future.

Automated conflict resolution between multiple clinical pathways: a technology report

“…Its intuitive graphical model37 has been found suitable for the capturing of processes by domain experts without specialist modelling skills, and facilitating communication between non-specialists 26 , 27 , 38. BPMN has been studied in healthcare and assessed as suitable for modelling and visualising clinical pathways39 , 40 and is being chosen as the modelling notation an increasing number of studies 26 , 27 , 38 – 40.…”

Mining and exploring care pathways from electronic medical records with visual analytics

“…A typical technique that falls into this category is Business Process Management (BPM), which is a holistic management approach focused on aligning all aspects of an organization with the desires and needs of clients. In the healthcare domain, BPM technologies are mainly used for analyzing clinical pathways [2][3][4], which are standardized and normalized treatment patterns. However, applying BPM techniques to real patient data (e.g., for designing personalized clinical pathways) results in very complex and chaotic graphs.…”

Simple Modeling of Executable Role-Based Workflows: An Application in the Healthcare Domain

“…They have been used since the 1980s and today are implemented in many hospitals, as there is evidence that they lead to substantial improvements (Ronellenfitsch et al, 2008;Rotter et al, 2010). Because of the workflow-like nature of many CPs they have meanwhile been identified as very promising starting points for the application of workflow modeling, independent of the actual modeling languagebe it BPMN (Grosskopf et al, 2010;Hashemian & Abidi, 2012;Scheuerlein et al, 2012) or even UML activity diagrams (Daniyal & Abidi, 2010;Mauro et al, 2010). Obviously, the existence of defined CPs means great potential for savings both in time and overall effort regarding the creation of workflow models, because the longsome identification of task sequences can be carried out more efficiently.…”