KRH4C 2012 - Joint Workshop on Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare (ProHealth) and Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KRH4C)

Joint Workshop on Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare (ProHealth) and Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KRH4C)
Organized by Richard Lenz, Silvia Miksch, Mor Peleg, Manfred Reichert, David Riaño, Annette ten Teije
This workshop brings together researchers from two communities facing similar challenges to improve the understanding of domain-specific requirements, theories, methods and tools. The healthcare community has been focusing on knowledge representation and reasoning to support medical knowledge management and clinical decision-making. The BPM community has been developing process-oriented information systems in healthcare and been studying ways to adopt BPM technology for healthcare process support. Both communities have been addressing the unique characteristics of healthcare processes and clinical-guideline based decision-support systems, including their high degree of flexibility, the integration with electronic medical records and shared semantics of healthcare domain concepts, and the need for tight cooperation and communication among medical care teams.