Analyzing Hospital Sterilization Service Vulnerabilities Using a Risk-Aware Business Process Modeling Method

Abstract

Healthcare processes, such as sterilization, are extremely dynamic, complex, and multidisciplinary, making risk management in healthcare facilities particularly challenging. Risk-aware business process management is a new paradigm for better understanding such processes by identifying and evaluating the risks that go along with them. This paper focuses on analyzing the vulnerability of a hospital sterilization service through the use of a new framework, called e-BPRIM, which consists of the digitalization of the Business Process-risk management -Integrated Method (BPRIM). The e-BPRIM framework promotes and supports risk-aware process management with AdoBPRIM, a modeling environment using the ADOxx meta-modeling platform. The main e-BPRIM components will be introduced and then used to study the robustness of a given sterilization process taking into consideration several potential risks.