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In healthcare domain, business process modelling technologies are able to support clinical processes recommended in guidelines. It has been shown that BPMN is intuitively understood by all stakeholders, including domain experts. However, if we want to develop any computer system using clinical guidelines, we need them in an executable format. Thus, we need computer-interpretable guidelines. Although there are several formalisms tailored to capture medical processes, encoding a guideline in any of them is not as intuitive. We propose an automatic transformation from a guideline represented in BPMN to a computer-interpretable formalism, in this case, PROforma. To tackle this problem, we have studied the approaches that transform graph-oriented languages into block-oriented languages. We have adapted the solution to our specific-domain problem and to our target language, PROforma, which has features of both, graph and block-oriented paradigms.
This work has been supported by Universitat Jaume I through the research project P1\(\cdot \)1B2013-15.
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Martínez-Salvador, B., Marcos, M., Sánchez, A. (2014). An Algorithm for Guideline Transformation: From BPMN to PROforma. In: Miksch, S., Riaño, D., ten Teije, A. (eds) Knowledge Representation for Health Care. KR4HC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8903. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13281-5_9
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