Heart Cycle: facilitating the deployment of advanced care processes.

Autores de IIS La Fe

• Vicente Traver Salcedo

  Autor

• Bernardo Valdivieso Martínez

  Autor

• Carlos Fernández Llatas

  Autor

Participantes ajenos a IIS La Fe

• Meneu T
• Guillen S
• Benedi J

Grupos

• Unidad Mixta de Investigacion en TICs aplicadas a la reingeniería en procesos sociosanitarios (ERPSS)

Abstract

Current trends in health management improvement demand the standardization of care protocols to achieve better quality and efficiency. The use of Clinical Pathways is an emerging solution for that problem. However, current Clinical Pathways are big manuals written in natural language and highly affected by human subjectivity. These problems make their deployment and dissemination extremely difficult in real practice environments. Furthermore, the intrinsic difficulties for the design of formal Clinical Pathways requires new specific design tools to help making them relly useful and cost-effective. Process Mining techniques can help to automatically infer processes definition from execution samples and, thus, support the automatization of the standardization and continuous control of healthcare processes. This way, they can become a relevant helping tool for clinical experts and healthcare systems for reducing variability in clinical practice and better understand the performance of the system.