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Clinical Guidelines: A Crossroad of Many Research Areas. Challenges and Opportunities in Process Mining for Healthcare

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Clinical Guidelines, medical protocols, and other healthcare indications, cover a significant slice of physicians daily routine, as they are used to support clinical choices also with relevant legal implications. On the one hand, informatics have proved to be a valuable mean for providing formalisms, methods, and approaches to extend clinical guidelines for better supporting the work performed in the healthcare domain. On the other hand, due to the different perspectives that can be considered for addressing similar problems, it lead to an undeniable fragmentation of the field. It may be argued that such fragmentation did not help to propose a practical, accepted, and extensively adopted solutions to assist physicians. As in Process Mining as a general field, Process Mining for Healthcare inherits the requirement of Conformance Checking. Conformance Checking aims to measure the adherence of a particular (discovered or known) process with a given set of data, or vice-versa. Due to the intuitive similarities in terms of challenges and problems to be faced between conformance checking and clinical guidelines, one may be tempted to expect that the fragmentation issue will naturally arise also in the conformance checking field. This position paper is a first step on the direction to embrace experience, lessons learnt, paradigms, and formalisms globally derived from the clinical guidelines challenge. We argue that such new focus, joint with the even growing notoriety and interest in PM4HC, might allow more physicians to make the big jump from user to protagonist becoming more motivated and proactive in building a strong multidisciplinary community.

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    Roberto Gatta & Maurizio Castellano

  2. School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK

    Mauro Vallati

  3. ITACA, Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia, Valéncia, Spain

    Carlos Fernandez-Llatas & Antonio Martinez-Millana

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  5. Department of Oncology, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  6. Norwegian Centre for E-health Research, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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    Alessandro Stefanini

  8. Alzheimer Operative Unit, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy

    Stefania Orini

  9. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

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  10. Universitá di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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  11. Department of Computer Engineering and Science, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain

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  12. Radiation Oncology Department, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire Jean Minjoz, Besançon, France

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Gatta, R. et al. (2019). Clinical Guidelines: A Crossroad of Many Research Areas. Challenges and Opportunities in Process Mining for Healthcare. In: Di Francescomarino, C., Dijkman, R., Zdun, U. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2019. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 362. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37453-2_44

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