Business process analysis in healthcare environments: A methodology based on process mining

Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 99-116

  Rebuge, Álvaro ^a   Ferreira, Diogo R ^b  

^a Hospital So Sebastio   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Business process analysis; Healthcare processes; Process mining; Sequence clustering

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY SERVICE; HEALTH CARE INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS; HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS; HEALTHCARE PROCESS; HEALTHCARE PROCESSES; MEDICAL CASE; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY; PROCESS ANALYSIS; PROCESS MINING; PROCESS VARIANTS; SEQUENCE CLUSTERING; WORK-FLOWS;

DATA MINING; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 80055051912     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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