Purpose Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a generic language that is often
extended by researchers, either for dealing with processes of specific domains or for …

The design and analysis of process models is a critical factor for organizational improvement
across various industries. Thanks to its potential to enable common understanding and …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has led caregivers to modify patient healthcare, with a
high impact on patients with chronic pain. Aims To map recommendations for the …

Multidisciplinary outpatient clinics are healthcare structures that group together a set of units
dealing with patients who require a series of cares and medical examinations. They are …

Background Clinical pathways (CPs) are usually expressed by means of workflow
formalisms, providing health care personnel with an easy-to-understand, high-level …

Clinical pathways are used to guide clinicians to provide a standardised delivery of care.
Because of their standardisation, the aim of clinical pathways is to reduce variation in both …

Process analysis and process modeling are a current topic that extends to many areas. This
trend of using optimization and modeling techniques in various specific areas has led to the …

Featured Application To work with a simplified version of a BPMN model that condenses the
information of interest can be very interesting from a human point of view (the understanding …

Purpose The aim of the article is to propose BPMN extensions that facilitate the modeling of
Clinical Pathways in a way that enables for various groups of users, the transfer of a much …

Digitization is advancing rapidly in many prevalently analogue domains such as healthcare.
For the latter domain, the synergies with modern information technologies (IT) have become …