Authors:
Martin Schmollinger
1
;
Eric Stricker
2
;
Tibor Bazlen
1
;
Thomas Eßlinger
1
;
Christopher Röhl
1
and
Brian Walter
1
Affiliations:
1
Reutlingen University, Germany
;
2
University Hospital Tübingen, Germany
Keyword(s):
Process-oriented system architecture, Medical incident reporting, BPMN 2.0, REST web services.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Clinical Problems and Applications
;
Cloud Computing
;
Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare IT
;
e-Health
;
e-Health for Public Health
;
Health Information Systems
;
Pervasive Health Systems and Services
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Practice-based Research Methods for Healthcare IT
;
Software Systems in Medicine
Abstract:
In Germany more than 17,000 people die per year because of ”medical errors”, in the USA it is about 98,000. The number of avoidable malpractice cases or major complications is about tenfold higher. Nearly everyone will be a patient in a hospital sooner or later. A key concept to improve patient safety are modern, anonymous adverse event reporting systems in hospitals. These are known as incident reporting systems. The introduction of modern process-oriented technologies optimizes the efficiency of such systems and increases patient safety. IT saves lives, if it is possible to improve the analysis of medical incidents and to accelerate the detection of the underlying causes by optimizing the IRS processes. In this paper we present a generic process-oriented architecture and its application for incident reporting systems in health care organizations. Further, we formulate lessons learned concerning business process modeling and implementation for process-oriented architectures.