The alpha-Flow Use-Case of Breast Cancer Treatment - Modeling Inter-Institutional Healthcare Workflows by Active Documents

Neumann C, Lenz R (2010)

Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2010

Journal

Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WET ICE IEEE Computer Society

Pages Range: 17-22

DOI: 10.1109/WETICE.2010.8

Abstract

In healthcare, inter-institutional process support implicates decentralized and ad-hoc workflows. From the perspective of system integration, the autonomy of the sites which are participating in a healthcare network is mostly untouchable. Traditional activity-oriented workflow models or content-oriented workflow models do not provide adequate support in such system environments and workflow scenarios. The objective of the alpha-Flow approach is to enable distributed, ad-hoc process support with initially unknown sets of actors and institutions. In its document-oriented workflow model, electronic documents become active documents and act as software agents as the primary means of coordination. This paper details the healthcare use-case for the alpha-Flow model by the example of cooperative breast-cancer treatment scenarios.

Authors with CRIS profile

Christoph Neumann Chair for Computer Science 6 (Data Management) Richard Lenz Professur für evolutionäres Datenmanagement

How to cite

APA:

Neumann, C., & Lenz, R. (2010). The alpha-Flow Use-Case of Breast Cancer Treatment - Modeling Inter-Institutional Healthcare Workflows by Active Documents. (pp. 17-22).

MLA:

Neumann, Christoph, and Richard Lenz. "The alpha-Flow Use-Case of Breast Cancer Treatment - Modeling Inter-Institutional Healthcare Workflows by Active Documents." 2010. 17-22.

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