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Process Support for Continuous, Distributed, Multi-party Healthcare Processes - Applying Workflow Modelling to an Anticoagulation Monitoring Protocol

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Workflow management has been shown to be a promising approach to the support of a range of healthcare processes, with tools available for their formal specification, analysis and implementation. To further illustrate its relevance, we apply a workflow modelling approach to the specification and analysis of an anticoagulation monitoring protocol, illustrating a Petri Net-based solution using YAWL and Coloured Petri Nets. The selected scenario is representative of healthcare processes which have not been extensively considered for workflow solutions in the past – namely highly distributed, multi-party activities executing over an extended period of time. In presenting a workflow analysis for such a case, we identify challenges in supporting these types of primary and community care-based processes and identify possible areas in which workflow solutions could be extended to address their particular process requirements.

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    Ian McChesney

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    Pino Caballero-Gil

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    Mike Burmester

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    Alexis Quesada-Arencibia

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McChesney, I. (2016). Process Support for Continuous, Distributed, Multi-party Healthcare Processes - Applying Workflow Modelling to an Anticoagulation Monitoring Protocol. In: García, C., Caballero-Gil, P., Burmester, M., Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. UCAmI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10069. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48746-5_26

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