title: Method for modeling social care processes for national information exchange.
abstract: Finnish social services include 21 service commissions of social welfare including Adoption counselling, Income support, Child welfare, Services for immigrants and Substance abuse care. This paper describes the method used for process modeling in the National project for IT in Social Services in Finland (Tikesos). The process modeling in the project aimed to support common national target state processes from the perspective of national electronic archive, increased interoperability between systems and electronic client documents. The process steps and other aspects of the method are presented. The method was developed, used and refined during the three years of process modeling in the national project.
authors.affiliation: University of Eastern Finland, School of Computing, HIS R&D, Finland. aki.miettinen@uef.fi
authors.forename: Aki
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Miettinen
authors.forename: Juha
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mykkänen
authors.forename: Maarit
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Laaksonen
mesh_terms: D005387:Finland; D063005:Health Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration*