3d International Workshop on
Process-oriented information systems in healthcare
(ProHealth '09)

In conjunction with 7th Int'l Conf. on Business Process Management (BPM 2009),
7 September 2009, Ulm, Germany

Mor Peleg1, Richard Lenz2, Paul de Clercq3

1 Department of Management Information Systems, University of Haifa, Israel
2Chair for Database Systems, Department of Computer Science, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
3Medecs BV, the Netherlands

Workshop URL: http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~morpeleg/events/prohealth09/

Workshop Goals:

Healthcare organizations and providers are facing the challenge of delivering high quality services to their patients, at affordable costs. High degree of specialization of medical disciplines, prolonged medical care for the ageing population, increased costs for dealing with chronic diseases, and the need for personalized healthcare are prevalent trends in this information-intensive domain. The emerging situation necessitates a change in the way healthcare is delivered to the patients and healthcare processes are managed.

BPM technology provides a key to implement these changes. Though patient-centered process support becomes increasingly crucial in healthcare, BPM technology has not yet been broadly used in healthcare environments. This workshop shall elaborate both the potential and the limitations of IT support for healthcare processes. It shall further provide a forum wherein challenges, paradigms, and tools for optimized process support in healthcare can be debated. We want to bring together researchers and practitioners from dif?ferent communities (e.g., BPM, Information Systems, Medical Informatics, E-Health) who share an interest in both healthcare processes and BPM technologies.

The success of the first two ProHealth Workshops, which were held in conjunction with the 5th and 6th International Conferences on Business Process Management (BPM'07 and BPM'08), demonstrated the potential of such an interdisciplinary forum to improve the understanding of domain specific requirements, methods and theories, tools and techniques, and the gaps between IT support and healthcare processes that are yet to be closed.

Workshop Description:
Enterprise-wide process-oriented information systems have been demanded by healthcare institutions for over 20 years and terms like "continuity of care" have even been discussed for over 50 years. Yet, healthcare organizations are currently using a plethora of specialized non-standard information systems and continue to focus on development of systems for specialized departments that frequently only focus on their in?ternal processes. Many of the successful existing information systems focus on non-process oriented systems, such as imaging, drug order-entry, laboratory test result storage, storage of diagnoses and progress notes in electronic medical records, alerts and reminders, and billing applications.

Information systems and decision-support systems for managing patient care processes, however, are still scarcely developed; most often only by a small number of university-led teams. Such patient care management systems are highly complex and pose many challenges: they require availability of encoded data coming from different sources, flexibility in deviating from the encoded process at the discretion of the physician user, and may involve a team of clinical users that together take care of a patient in a coordinated way.

The recent trend towards healthcare networks and inte?grated care even increases the need to effec?tively support interdisciplinary cooper?ation along with the patient treatment process. Recent studies discussing the preven?tability of adverse events in medicine recommend the use of information technology, since insufficient communication and missing information turned out to be among the major factors contributing to adverse events. Yet, there is still a discrepancy between the potential and the actual usage of IT in healthcare.

This workshop focuses on research projects which aim at closing this gap. It shall ela?borate both the potential and the limitations of IT support for healthcare processes, and discuss approaches existing in this context.

Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
* Process modelling in healthcare
* Process oriented system architectures in healthcare
* Workflow management in healthcare
* IT support for guideline implementation and decision support
* Managing flexibility and exceptions in healthcare processes
* Process optimization in healthcare organizations and healthcare networks
* Process interoperability & standards in healthcare
* Process patterns in healthcare
* Lifecycle management for healthcare processes
* Visualization, monitoring and mining of healthcare processes
* Context-aware healthcare processes
* Ambient intelligence & smart processes in healthcare
* Process mining and learning
* Compliance of healthcare processes
* Facilitating knowledge-acquisition of healthcare processes
* Integrating healthcare processes with electronic medical records

Submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. Papers should clearly establish their research contribution and the relation to healthcare processes.

The workshop will also provide opportunity for demo sessions, where presenters can showcase advanced prototypes based on their research.

Format of the Workshop:
The workshop will comprise accepted papers, tool presentations, and a keynote. Papers should be submitted in advance and will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. There will be a single LNBIP volume dedicated to the proceedings of all BPM workshops. As this volume will appear after the conference, there will be informal proceedings during the workshop. At least one author for each accepted paper should register for the workshop and present the paper.

Paper submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above. Only papers in English will be accepted. Three types of submissions are possible: (1) full papers (12 pages long) reporting mature research results, (2) position papers reporting research that may be in preliminary stage that has not yet been evaluated, and (3) tool reports. Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 6 pages. Papers must present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere.

Papers should be submitted in the LNBIP format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular paper/position paper/tool report).

Papers (preferably in PDF format) should be submitted electronically via e-mail to Mor Peleg (morpeleg@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il).

Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: 7 May 2009
Notification of acceptance: 2 June 2009
Camera ready: 17 June 2009 (strict deadline)
Workshop day: 7 September 2009

Organization:
Dr. Mor Peleg
Senior Lecturer
Department of Management Information Systems
University of Haifa
Haifa, 31905, Israel
E-Mail: peleg.mor@gmail.com
http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~morpeleg/
Currently on Sabbatical at BioMedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, CA, USA

Prof. Dr. Richard Lenz
University of Erlangen and Nuremberg
Department of Computer Sciences
Computer Science 6 (Data Management)
Martensstrasse 3
91058 Erlangen, Germany
E-Mail: richard.lenz@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
http://www6.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/people/lenz

Dr. Paul de Clercq
CEO, Medecs BV
Horsten 2
5612AX Eindhoven, The Netherlands
E-Mail: p.a.d.clercq@medecs.nl
http://www.medecs.nl


Program Committee:

Wil van der Aalst, The Netherlands
Elske Ammenwerth, Austria
Joseph Barjis, The Netherlands
Oliver Bott, Germany
Paul de Clercq, The Netherlands (Co-chair)
Dominic Covvey, Canada
Stefan Jablonski, Germany
Richard Lenz, Germany (Co-chair)
Silvia Miksch, Austria
Bela Mutschler, Germany
?ystein Nytr?, Norway
Mor Peleg, Israel (Co-chair)
Silvana Quaglini, Italy
Manfred Reichert, Germany
Hajo Reijers, The Netherlands
Danielle Sent, The Netherlands
Yuval Shahar, Israel
Ton Spil, The Netherlands
Annette ten Teije, The Netherlands
Paolo Terenziani, Italy
Lucineia Thom, Brazil
Samson Tu, USA
Dongwen Wang, USA
Barbara Weber, Austria