Heureka!

I am developing two different heuristics to translate and fix process models from a poor quality to a good quality. It should be possible to provide a generable way to improve process models by using heuristics, hence heureka!

Visualization of a reference model

I had a meeting with my mentor Pieter Van Gorp where we talked about the visualization of a reference model as described in previous blog post. We have evaluated the different options and I gave it a second thought, and I want to share those thoughts with you.

European BPM Round Table

It wasn't trending topic (#EuropeanBPMRoundTable) on twitter, unfortunately, but it was very interesting though. The BPM Round Table isn’t something medieval, and BPM has nothing to with music, at least not in this definition. It is a discussion group with representatives from both research and companies, and they present their work which has something to do with Business Process Management (BPM).

FHIES symposium

I’m back from the Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems Symposium in Paris. It was an interesting meeting with a high variety of papers. And being in Paris for a couple of days was not bad either ;). You can see the slides below I used during the symposium.

Process (model) selection and FHIES2012 symposium

No fancy pictures/graphics this time or a long (for some abracadabra) piece of text. No, this time just a short update about the progress of my master thesis and some good news about a new project I am really excited about.

Explanation added on new page

I added a new page on my blog. Click here to see an explanation of my thesis!

PS. You can go there manually as well, see the new tab below the title of the blog

My first publication

My first publication is a fact!
Check http://beta.ieis.tue.nl/node/2019 for my literature study.
Check http://is.ieis.tue.nl/staff/pvgorp/research/#mde4dss12 where this literature study is used for.

Roadmap of master thesis project

In this blog post I will introduce the roadmap for the rest of this master thesis project, but first I will give a brief summary of the literature review. A very brief summary!

Reference Concept Map

About a month ago I wrote a post with the title "What is a care pathway?" and gave one definition for a care pathway and its synonyms (clinical-, critical, integrated care pathway, and care map). However, I was not pleased with this because I still didn’t know what was meant by it. So I kept looking for other definitions, and found some more.

Modeling care processes in GZA hospital (Kick-off)

Friday the 30th of March I been to Antwerp together with Pieter Van Gorp to talk to H. Van Der Mussele and J. De Sitter. They are policy makers in the GasthuisZusters Antwerpen hospital (GZA) and are working on a new system. In this post I will tell you everything I’ve noticed and what I’ve learned. First I will inform you about the goal of the project form the university’s point of view and what is in it for the GZA. After that I will discuss the meeting on contents and my observations about the current way of working within the hospital and how they would like to work in the near future.

Methodology

As mentioned in one of the previous post I will split up the literature review in three parts. The first literature study will be about the various terms that are used to identify a clinical pathway. In this blog post I will mention the newest update after a meeting with my mentor and I will present you the method that I will use during this literature study. Also the research question for the time being is presented together with the involved supervisors for reviewing the literature review.

What is a care pathway?

After the previous post I have been thinking about the used search key to find some literature. I came to the conclusion that the term care pathway was not completely clear to me. There are some questions that I couldn’t answer. One of these questions was about the definitions of a care pathway. What is a care pathway? How is it defined? And after reading some article about care pathways, I came across some comparable definitions, and I asked myself: Is there a difference between the various definitions or are they all synonyms? So I have been investigating on this point and this is what I found so far. 

Literature study (part 2)

It has been a very long time since I posted an update, but that has to do with the exams. Hopefully I passed all exams now (I really think so) and I can start focusing on my literature study. What have I been doing so far this first week? I read some general (background) papers and I searched for some more specific papers. The search key I have been using is based on the question: Is BPMN2.0 the right modeling tool for creating reference models (in the health care domain)? This question is not the research question, but will be closely related to it. I don’t have a final version of my research question(s) yet. As soon as I have formulated them, I will post them so anybody can take a look at it and provide me with some feedback.