Managing exceptions in the medical workflow systems

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 741-750

  Han, Minmin ^a   Thiery, Thomas ^b   Song, Xiping ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exception; Medical workflows; Workflow management system

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL WORKFLOW; SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247096126     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1134285.1134403     Document Type: Conference Paper

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