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Crohn’s disease belongs to the group of inflammatory bowel diseases. The current process of disease management has significant weaknesses that cause high cost for health systems and a significant loss of quality of life for the patient. This paper shows a new approach to redesign process for the management of Crohn’s disease based on Business Process Management strategy. This approach seeks to improve the patient empowerment and self-management, reducing costs and obtaining constant and updated information throughout the process.
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This work has been granted by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad of the Spanish Government (ref. TIN2014-53067-C3-1-R) and cofinanced by FEDER.
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de Ramón-Fernández, A., Marcos-Jorquera, D., Soriano-Payá, A., Gilart-Iglesias, V., Ruiz-Fernández, D., Ramirez-Navarro, J. (2016). Business Process Management for the Crohn’s Disease Clinical Process. In: García, C., Caballero-Gil, P., Burmester, M., Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. UCAmI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10069. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48746-5_8
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