PERSONALIZED MEDICAL WORKFLOW THROUGH SEMANTIC BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT

Jiangbo Dang, Amir Hedayati, Ken Hampel, Candemir Toklu

2009

Abstract

Business Process Management (BPM) systems are becoming the runtime governance of emerging Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. They provide tools and methodologies to design and compose Web services that can be executed as business processes and monitored by BPM consoles. Ontology, as a formal declarative knowledge representation model, provides semantics upon which machine understandable knowledge can be obtained, and as a result, it makes machine intelligence possible. By combining ontology and BPM, Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM) provides a novel approach to align business processes from both business perspective and IT perspective. Current healthcare systems can adopt SBPM to make themselves adaptive, intelligent, and then serve patients better. Our ontology makes our vision of personalized healthcare possible by capturing all necessary knowledge for a complex personalized healthcare scenario including patient care, insurance policies, drug prescriptions, and compliances. This paper presents a hospital workflow management system that allows users, from physicians to administrative assistants, to create context-aware medical workflows, and execute them on-the-fly using an ontological knowledge base.

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in Harvard Style

Dang J., Hedayati A., Hampel K. and Toklu C. (2009). PERSONALIZED MEDICAL WORKFLOW THROUGH SEMANTIC BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-87-6, pages 122-127. DOI: 10.5220/0002006401220127


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis09,
author={Jiangbo Dang and Amir Hedayati and Ken Hampel and Candemir Toklu},
title={PERSONALIZED MEDICAL WORKFLOW THROUGH SEMANTIC BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={122-127},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002006401220127},
isbn={978-989-8111-87-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - PERSONALIZED MEDICAL WORKFLOW THROUGH SEMANTIC BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT
SN - 978-989-8111-87-6
AU - Dang J.
AU - Hedayati A.
AU - Hampel K.
AU - Toklu C.
PY - 2009
SP - 122
EP - 127
DO - 10.5220/0002006401220127