Research Article
Modelling and Decision Support of Clinical Pathways
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_23, author={Roland Gabriel and Thomas Lux}, title={Modelling and Decision Support of Clinical Pathways}, proceedings={Electronic Healthcare. Second International ICST Conference, eHealth 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, September 23-15, 2009, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={E-HEALTH}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_23} }- Roland Gabriel
Thomas Lux
Year: 2012
Modelling and Decision Support of Clinical Pathways
E-HEALTH
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_23
Abstract
The German health care market is under a rapid rate of change, forcing especially hospitals to provide high-quality services at low costs. Appropriate measures for more effective and efficient service provision are process orientation and decision support by information technology of clinical pathway of a patient. The essential requirements are adequate modelling of clinical pathways as well as usage of adequate systems, which are capable of assisting the complete path of a patient within a hospital, and preferably also outside of it, in a digital way. To fulfil these specifications the authors present a suitable concept, which meets the challenges of well-structured clinical pathways as well as rather poorly structured diagnostic and therapeutic decisions, by interplay of process-oriented and knowledge-based hospital information systems.