BPMN for Healthcare Processes

The nature of healthcare processes in a multidisciplinary hospital is inherently complex. In this paper, we identify particular problems of modeling healthcare processes with the de-facto standard process modeling language BPMN. We discuss all possibilities of BPMN adressing these problems. Where plain BPMN fails to produce nice and easily comprehensible results, we propose a new approach: Encorporating role information in process models using the color attribute of tasks complementary to the usage of lanes.

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