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.

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.

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.

Limitation of Used Tool and Potential Solution

Hmm, that's a pity! The tool I was planning to use is not working as I would like it to work. To explain it, this will become a rather technical story for some of you. For others however this will be a piece of cake! 

Literature study

So, here we are again. It is one month ago since my last post, but not much progress has been made. Main reason is because I have been busy with my final master courses. The last exams will be in the last week of January and the first week of February. After the exams I will have lots of time to focus on my master thesis.

However, before I start with my thesis in February I have to study some literature because of two reasons. First reason is because I have to know where I am talking about. If I want to add something new to the literature I have to study the existing literature. Second reason why I have to do a literature study is because I have to do a research proposal. But where do I start and what do I read (and what not)?

Kick-off

My name is Willem Dalinghaus and I am a student at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. The reason why I started this blog is to get input from everybody who is interested and/or has some kind of feedback about my master thesis. My thesis is about the use of BPMN 2.0 in the healthcare domain. I will try to make a reference model for some processes which are (almost) the same for all hospitals and let either the hospitals do the specialization of the process or it is specialized by myself.