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Clinical workflow processes do not only strongly rely on human activities but may also depend on events that trigger the execution of work items. We describe a novel approach that integrates human tasks, devices, and events into a single process model. As a sample workflow, we discuss the patient’s admission to an intensive care unit. Given an infrastructure of loosely-coupled disparate systems, such as auto-ID devices and clinical information systems, process integration is accomplished by adopting as well as extending an open-source messaging middleware that is known as JCoupling. We argue that JCoupling in conjunction with auto-ID technology allows for the replacement of manual, computer-related tasks by semi-automatic message-driven interactions. Our approach is based on the integration of JCoupling with the forthcoming release of the workflow management system YAWL. This ensures explicit support for resource-centric workflow patterns and thus lends additional power to our proposal.
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Kuhr, JC., Pretzel, J., Vagts, D.A., Aldred, L. (2009). Integrating Humans, Devices, and Events in Clinical Workflow Processes. In: Ardagna, D., Mecella, M., Yang, J. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00328-8_40
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