ABSTRACT
Healthcare processes have many particularities captured and described within standards for medical information exchange such as HL7 FHIR. BPMN is a widely used standard to create readily understandable processes models. We show an approach to integrate both these standards via an automated transformation mechanism. This will allow us to use the various tools available for BPMN to visualize and automate processes in the healthcare domain. In the future we plan to extend this approach to enable mining and analyzing executed processes.
Subject(s)
Electronic Health Records , Health Information Exchange , Critical Pathways , Delivery of Health Care , Health Facilities , Health Level SevenABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: HL7 Austria is a non-profit association dedicated to improving electronic data communication and interoperability in healthcare using the HL7 international standards. OBJECTIVES: We aim to provide an open infrastructure to develop, manage, and maintain HL7 FHIR implementation guides. METHODS: We utilize state-of-the-art open-source tooling developed by the FHIR community to support continuous integration. RESULTS: The implementation guides can be published as static HTML websites and maintained using GitHub. CONCLUSION: The solution supports all steps of a standard's lifecycle, from drafting and reviewing to balloting, publishing, and maintenance.
