Modeling of Processes and Decisions in Healthcare - State of the Art and Research Directions

Abstract

In order to be able to deliver efficient and effective decision support technologies within healthcare, it is important to be able to understand and describe decision making in medical diagnosis, treatment and administrative processes. This paper outlines how information can be synthesized, interpreted and used during decision making in dynamic healthcare environments. We intend to develop a set of modeling constructs that describe the decision requirements forming the basis for adequate situation awareness in clinical processes. We propose that a separate decision perspective will 1) enhance the shared understanding of the decision context among clinical staff, and 2) provide a better understanding of how we can design information system support for complex cognitive tasks in dynamic work environments.

<p>An Evidence-Informed and Key Informants-Appraised Conceptual Framework for an Integrated Elderly Health Care Governance in Iran (IEHCG-IR)</p>

“…A combination of three steps including the best available scientific evidence reviews, selecting evidence for input parameters and the model structures, gap analysis and consensus reaching process (CRP) on components of a conceptual model for the provision of elderly healthcare in Iran and qualitative verification of the drafted model by cross-examination of the comments made by the experts to justify their validation as well as their suggestions for improvement 12,13 were utilized to guide the development of the framework (IEHCG-IR).…”

Technologies for Analyzing and Improving Healthcare Processes

“…Equally, as the amount of technology utilized and integrated within health processes increases, so too does the scope for new vulnerabilities and problems (Leveson 2011). The complexities and significance of healthcare processes do mean that they do provide novel challenges from a system modeling and analysis perspective (Mathisen and Krogstie 2012), as considered in the next section.…”