Adherence to Guidelines Supported by Process Mining

Arthofer, Klaus

doi:10.3233/SHTI250152

Abstract

Background:

Adherence to clinical guidelines supports high quality patient care. Conformance checking, a feature of process mining, can potentially automate the assessment of adherence to clinical guidelines in practice.

Objectives:

This paper investigates appropriate conformance checking in practice.

Methods:

Conformance checking in practice was simulated with generated test data, a FHIR server and process mining tools. A corresponding literature review was conducted in parallel.

Results:

Activities of clinical guidelines or in healthcare processes should be coded using clinical nomenclature to support conformance checking.

Conclusion:

SNOMED CT should be used as a nomenclature and activities should be coded with SNOMED concepts of the type “procedure”.