Agility in medical treatment processes – a model-based approach

Abstract

The economic view on today's health care organizations insists on the integration of standardized process descriptions by Clinical Pathways and information technology (IT). The individuality of several treatments then again requires mechanisms for a flexible and agile alignment oft a treatment process at any time. This paper delineates an IT-system for an agile execution of medical treatment processes based on process models of Clinical Pathways. It will be shown which information occurs and where it can be used in terms of an agile process management and a continuous process improvement.