Abstract
The integration of workflows and guidelines modeling healthcare processes is a hot topic of research in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, and is likely to provide a major advance in the IT support to healthcare [1]. In this position paper, we use a case study in order to identify commonalities and differences between workflows and guidelines. As a result of the analysis, we argue in favor of an integrated architecture in which workflow and guideline models are independently managed and supported, while integration is obtained through a mapping onto a system-internal format, where traditional AI-style inferential capabilities are supported.
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Terenziani, P., Femiano, S. (2016). Towards an Integration of Workflows and Clinical Guidelines: A Case Study. In: Montes y Gómez, M., Escalante, H., Segura, A., Murillo, J. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence - IBERAMIA 2016. IBERAMIA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10022. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47955-2_1
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