Workflow in healthcare, particularly for the shared and coordinated management of chronic illnesses, is very difficult to model. It is also difficult to support via current Clinical information Systems and current information technologies. This dissertation contributes significant enhancements to the current methodologies for designing and implementing workflow Management Systems (WfMSs) suitable for healthcare. The contribution comprises three interrelated aspects of workflow system architecture as follows:- Firstly, it shifts the emphasis of workflow modelling and enactment to a focus on goals, and the monitoring and facilitation of their achievement. Secondly, it introduces the concept of self-modifying workflow in the context of health care planning, whereby explicit tasks in the goal-based care plan are devoted to assessing and modifying downstream workflow. Thirdly, this dissertation proposes methodologies for identifying and dealing with tasks which overlap, subsume or interfere with other tasks elsewhere in a given workflow. / PhD Doctorate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/284111 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Browne, Eric Donald |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | EN-AUS |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Copyright 2005 Eric Donald Browne |
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