Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) aim to improve the quality of care, reduce unjustified
practice variations and reduce healthcare costs. In order for them to be effective, clinical …

Engineering of knowledge-intensive processes (KiPs) is far from being mastered, since they
are genuinely knowledge-and data-centric, and require substantial flexibility, at both design …

Clinical guidelines are recommendations of how to diagnose, treat, and manage a patient's
medical condition. Health organizations must measure adherence to clinical guidelines to …

Healthcare organizations are confronted with challenges including the contention between
tightening budgets and increased care needs. In the light of these challenges, they are …

Runtime monitoring is a central operational decision support task in business process
management. It helps process executors to check on-the-fly whether a running process …

So far, approaches for business process modeling, enactment and monitoring have mainly
been based on process specifications consisting of a single process model. This setting …

This chapter introduces a specific application domain of process mining: healthcare.
Healthcare is a very promising domain for process mining given the significant societal …

In this paper, we describe a framework able to support run-time adjustment and a posteriori
analysis of business processes, which exploits the retrieval step of the Case-based …

In the era of evidence-based medicine, several clinical guidelines were developed,
supporting cancer management from diagnosis to treatment and aiming to optimize patient …

While the increasing average age of population is posing new challenges to societies and
healthcare systems, the emergence of the Internet of Things research area is generating the …