Managing Changes in Citizen-Centric Healthcare Service Platform using High Level Petri Net

TL;DR

This paper introduces a change management framework for citizen-centric healthcare platforms using Petri nets to ensure process consistency and correctness amid frequent changes.

Contribution

It combines Petri nets and reconfigurable Petri nets to effectively handle and react to changes in healthcare service processes.

Findings

Framework guarantees process correctness during changes

Petri nets model supports healthcare process consistency

Reconfigurable Petri nets enable adaptive responses

Abstract

The healthcare organizations are facing a number of daunting challenges pushing systems to deal with requirements changes and benefit from modern technologies and telecom capabilities. Systems evolution through extension of the existing information technology infrastructure becomes one of the most challenging aspects of healthcare and the adaptation to changes is a must. The paper presents a change management framework for a citizen-centric healthcare service platform. A combination between Petri nets model to handle changes and reconfigurable Petri nets model to react to these changes are introduced to fulfill healthcare goals. Thanks to this management framework model, consistency and correctness of a healthcare processes in the presence of frequent changes can be checked and guaranteed.