What Role Can Process Mining Play in Recurrent Clinical Guidelines Issues? A Position Paper

Human & Process Research Lab (HAPLAB), Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 3580000 Santiago, Chile

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Department of Oncology, University Hospital of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland

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Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, UNIL Sorge, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

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Radiation Oncology, Réseau Hospitalier Neuchâtelois, 2000 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

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Department of Oncology, Lausanne University Hospital, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

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Norwegian Centre for E-health Research, University Hospital of North Norway, 7439 Tromsø, Norway

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Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’energia dei sistemi del territorio e delle costruzioni, Università degli Studi di Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy

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Department of Cardiology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, 44307 Kaunas, Lithuania

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Department of Radiology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, 44307 Kaunas, Lithuania

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Data Analytics Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium

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Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), 1000 Brussel, Belgium

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Hasselt University, 3500 Hasselt, Belgium

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Department of Information Engineering, Università degli Studi di Padova, 35122 Padova, Italy

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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(18), 6616; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186616

Received: 8 August 2020 / Revised: 6 September 2020 / Accepted: 8 September 2020 / Published: 11 September 2020

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Process-Oriented Data Science for Healthcare 2019 (PODS4H19))

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In the age of Evidence-Based Medicine, Clinical Guidelines (CGs) are recognized to be an indispensable tool to support physicians in their daily clinical practice. Medical Informatics is expected to play a relevant role in facilitating diffusion and adoption of CGs. However, the past pioneering approaches, often fragmented in many disciplines, did not lead to solutions that are actually exploited in hospitals. Process Mining for Healthcare (PM4HC) is an emerging discipline gaining the interest of healthcare experts, and seems able to deal with many important issues in representing CGs. In this position paper, we briefly describe the story and the state-of-the-art of CGs, and the efforts and results of the past approaches of medical informatics. Then, we describe PM4HC, and we answer questions like how can PM4HC cope with this challenge? Which role does PM4HC play and which rules should be employed for the PM4HC scientific community? View Full-Text

Keywords: clinical guidelines; process mining; healthcare

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Gatta, R.; Vallati, M.; Fernandez-Llatas, C.; Martinez-Millana, A.; Orini, S.; Sacchi, L.; Lenkowicz, J.; Marcos, M.; Munoz-Gama, J.; Cuendet, M.A.; de Bari, B.; Marco-Ruiz, L.; Stefanini, A.; Valero-Ramon, Z.; Michielin, O.; Lapinskas, T.; Montvila, A.; Martin, N.; Tavazzi, E.; Castellano, M. What Role Can Process Mining Play in Recurrent Clinical Guidelines Issues? A Position Paper. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 6616. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186616

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Gatta R, Vallati M, Fernandez-Llatas C, Martinez-Millana A, Orini S, Sacchi L, Lenkowicz J, Marcos M, Munoz-Gama J, Cuendet MA, de Bari B, Marco-Ruiz L, Stefanini A, Valero-Ramon Z, Michielin O, Lapinskas T, Montvila A, Martin N, Tavazzi E, Castellano M. What Role Can Process Mining Play in Recurrent Clinical Guidelines Issues? A Position Paper. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(18):6616. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186616

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Gatta, Roberto, Mauro Vallati, Carlos Fernandez-Llatas, Antonio Martinez-Millana, Stefania Orini, Lucia Sacchi, Jacopo Lenkowicz, Mar Marcos, Jorge Munoz-Gama, Michel A. Cuendet, Berardino de Bari, Luis Marco-Ruiz, Alessandro Stefanini, Zoe Valero-Ramon, Olivier Michielin, Tomas Lapinskas, Antanas Montvila, Niels Martin, Erica Tavazzi, and Maurizio Castellano. 2020. "What Role Can Process Mining Play in Recurrent Clinical Guidelines Issues? A Position Paper" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 18: 6616. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186616

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