Medical Process Modeling: an Artifact-Centric Approach

TL;DR

This paper advocates for using artifact-centric process modeling to represent and analyze complex medical processes, including physiological, disease, and treatment pathways, to improve understanding and querying of patient data.

Contribution

It introduces an artifact-centric approach to model diverse medical processes and their interactions, extending traditional process modeling to healthcare applications.

Findings

Proposes a unified framework for modeling physiological, disease, and treatment processes.

Highlights how artifact-centric models can facilitate complex queries over patient data.

Suggests potential for improved analysis of patient pathways and outcomes.

Abstract

In this position paper we argue that just as traditional business process modeling has been adopted to deal with clinical pathways, also the artifact-centric process modeling technique may be successfully used to model various kinds of medical processes: physiological processes, disease behavior and treatment processes. We also discuss how a proposed approach may be used to deal with an interplay of all the processes a patient is subject to and what are the queries that might be imposed over an overall patient model.