title: Building patient workflow management systems by integrating medical and organizational knowledge.
abstract: Patient management is a distributed activity involving general practitioners, clinicians, analysts, nurses, etc. Thus an integrated Patient Workflow Management System (WfMS), based on a detailed model of both the organizational and medical knowledge, could heavily improve Health Care System's performance in terms of collaborative work and resource utilization. A set of tools was developed to improve 1) acquisition of medical knowledge represented through clinical practice Guideline, and 2) acquisition of organizational knowledge describing the work process.
authors.affiliation: Dept. Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Pavia, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stefanelli
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dazzi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fassino
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lanzola
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Quaglini
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010346:Patient Care Management / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D018511:Systems Integration