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Flexibility Schemes for Workflow Management Systems

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Currently, many hospitals are investigating the use of workflow management systems in order to provide support for healthcare processes. However, contemporary workflow management systems fall short in supporting care processes which require flexible execution options. In this paper, we investigate the flexibility requirements that need to be satisfied in order to support various kinds of healthcare processes Our evaluation shows that different systems need to be used in conjunction with each other in order to fully support the various types of care processes.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, NL-5600, MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    R. S. Mans, W. M. P. van der Aalst & N. C. Russell

  2. Department of Innovation and Process Management, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    R. S. Mans & P. J. M. Bakker

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  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Via Golgi 40, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Danilo Ardagna

  2. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Via Salaria 113,, 00198, Roma, Italy

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  3. Department of Computing, Macquarie University, 2109, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Jian Yang

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Mans, R.S., van der Aalst, W.M.P., Russell, N.C., Bakker, P.J.M. (2009). Flexibility Schemes for Workflow Management Systems. In: Ardagna, D., Mecella, M., Yang, J. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00328-8_36

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