Healthcare workflow
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Workflow in healthcare is a term for expressing in a computerized format processes which represent the flow of task in particular healthcare procedures.
Workflow management technology (see workflow) is not used in healthcare as often as in other domains. However workflow engines can be very useful to manage processes. Workflow software can be also used as a clinical guideline (see clinical guideline execution engine. guideline execution engine
You can reuse the:
- workflow editor as guideline editor
- workflow engine as guideline execution engine
The main standards for encoding workflow are
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Managing exceptions in the medical workflow systems (International Conference on Software Engineering archive - Shanghai, China (pp 741 - 750, 2006 ISBN:1-59593-375-1) http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1134285.1134403
- http://workflow.minfor.net
