title: Process frame instances for integrating strategic, tactical and operational information management in hospitals.
abstract: An approach to reduce the complexity of information management is to distinguish it into strategic, tactical and operational management with each of the levels using its own software tools. In practice, the management levels are tightly connected and interact closely. The most evident information that has to be interchanged between the management levels is the information about finished, cancelled, running and planned activities or projects, respectively. We claim that the levels of information management should share information about the work done, and propose their integration by means of a network of so-called process frame instances. Process frame instances hold information about the activities of different information management levels in a structured and reusable way.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Germany. lutz.issler@imise.uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: Lutz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Issler
authors.forename: Gert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Funkat
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Smers
authors.forename: Alfred
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Winter
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000458:organization & administration; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009937:Organizational Objectives