PURPOSE: Clinical guidelines are useful tools to standardize and improve health care. The
automation of the guideline execution process is a basic step towards its widespread use in …

Many novel application scenarios and architectures in business process management or
service composition are characterized by a distribution of activities and resources, and by …

In this article, I will argue in favor of both the ethical and epistemological utility of
explanations in artificial intelligence (AI)-based medical technology. I will build on the notion …

Home Care services are notoriously difficult to deliver efficiently, due to the heterogeneity of
the involved actors and the usual co-morbidity of the patients assisted at home. The K4Care …

OBJECTIVE: This paper describes a methodology which enables computer-aided support
for the planning, visualization and execution of personalized patient treatments in a specific …

Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are a formalization of specific clinical knowledge that
states the best evidence-based clinical practices for treating pathologies. However, CPGs …

The rationalization of the healthcare processes and organizations is a task of fundamental
importance to grant both the quality and the standardization of healthcare services, and the …

Careflow systems implement workflow concepts in the clinical domain in order to administer,
support and monitor the execution of health care services performed by different health care …

Clinical guidelines and Careflow systems have been recently identified as a means to
improve and standardize health care services. A number of ICT-based management …

The treatment of patients affected by multiple diseases (comorbid patients) is one of the
main challenges for modern healthcare. Clinical practice guidelines are widely used to …