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Healthcare organizations and healthcare providers are facing the challenge of delivering high-quality services to their patients at affordable costs. A high degree of specialization, prolonged medical care for the aging population, increasing costs for dealing with chronic diseases, and the need for personalized healthcare are prevalent trends in this information-intensive domain. The emerging situation necessitates a change in the way healthcare is delivered to the patients and healthcare processes are managed. Business process management (BPM) technology provides a key to implement these changes. Though patient-centered process support has become increasingly important in healthcare, BPM technology has not yet been broadly used in healthcare environments.
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Reichert, M., Peleg, M., Lenz, R. (2008). Introduction to the First International Workshop on Process-Oriented Information Systems in Healthcare (ProHealth 2007). In: ter Hofstede, A., Benatallah, B., Paik, HY. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4928. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78238-4_31
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