Research project

Process support of adaptive-evolutionary information systems in healthcare (ProMed)

Purpose of the project "Process support of adaptive-evolutionary information systems in healthcare" (ProMed) is the formulation of architectural and process description requirements to adaptive and evolutionary information systems in order to support cross-organizational workflows within the medical supply chain (hospital facilities, laboratory, pharmacies, ancillary medical institutions, health insurance funds, and the associations of statutory health insurance physicians).

There has been done several researches in the context of semantic integration (e.g. subprojects "DEUS", "XdsRig", "DMPS", and "OXDBS"). Focus of the research, however, is process support, which means developing a model and notation for cooperative and inter-institutional workflows on the basis of 'active' documents.

The governmental project "Elektronische Gesundheitskarte" (eGK) will hopefully provide a platform of information exchange and therefore solve the issue of technical integration in German healthcare. Center zone of the ProMed project is the "alpha-Flow"-System: it implements distributed case files. The concept is based on a document-oriented process paradigm and enables process support in heterogeneous and inter-institutional scenarios. In healthcare, processes are characterized by cooperative ad-hoc flows, wherein distributed information systems are required to coordinate work with initially unknown sets of actors and activities. alpha-Flow provides a new approach to schema-less workflows and decouples content from decision support and both of these from coordination work.

Project manager:
Prof. Dr. Richard Lenz

Project participants:
Neumann, Christoph P.

Keywords:
alpha-Flow; DMPS; DEUS; OXDBS; XdsRig; Medical Supply Chains; Workflow Management; WfM; Medical Information Systems; semantic Integration; EAI; SOA; HL7; CDA; IHE; XDS; EHR; eGK; Active Documents; Document-oriented Integration; Process Support

Duration: 1.6.2007 - 31.12.2012

Contact:
Neumann, Christoph P.
E-Mail: cpnatwork@googlemail.com

Publications

Neumann, Christoph P. ; Lenz, Richard: A Light-Weight System Extension Supporting Document-based Processes in Healthcare. In: ProHealth ´09 (Org.) : Proceedings of the 3rd Int'l Workshop on Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare in conjunction with the 7th Int'l Conf on Business Process Management (BPM ´09 Ulm, Germany 2009, September). 2009, pp -.
[doi>10.1007/978-3-642-12186-9_54]

Neumann, Christoph P. ; Rampp, Florian ; Daum, Michael ; Lenz, Richard: A Mediated Publish-Subscribe System for Inter-Institutional Process Support in Healthcare. In: ACM (Ed.) : Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Int'l Conf on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS ´09 Nashville, TN, USA 2009, Juli). 2009, pp -.
[doi>10.1145/1619258.1619277]

Neumann, Christoph P. ; Lenz, Richard: alpha-Flow: A Document-based Approach to Inter-Institutional Process Support in Healthcare. In: ProHealth ´09 (Org.) : Proceedings of the 3rd Int'l Workshop on Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare in conjunction with the 7th Int'l Conf on Business Process Management (BPM '09 Ulm, Germany 2009, September). 2009, pp -.
[doi>10.1007/978-3-642-12186-9_55]

Neumann, Christoph P. ; Hanisch, Stefan ; Schiemann, Bernhard ; Lenz, Richard: OXDBS Erweiterung einer nativen XML-Datenbank um die Validierung und Konsistenzprüfung gegen eine OWL-Ontologie. In: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (Org.) : Tagungsband (54. GMDS - Jahrestagung Essen, Germany 2009, September). 2009, pp -.

Neumann, Christoph P. ; Wagner, Florian ; Lenz, Richard: XdsRig Eine Open-Source IHE XDS Testumgebung. In: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (Org.) : Tagungsband (54. GMDS - Jahrestagung Essen, Germany 2009, September). 2009, pp -.

Neumann, Christoph P. ; Fischer, Thomas ; Lenz, Richard: OXDBS -- Extension of a native XML Database System with Validation by Consistency Checking of OWL-DL Ontologies. In: Concordia University, Montreal (Org.) : Proc of the 14th International Database Engineering \& Applications Symposium ((IDEAS '10) Montreal, QC, Canada 16.-18.8.2010). 2010, pp -.
[doi>10.1145/1866480.1866502]

Neumann, Christoph P. ; Lenz, Richard: The alpha-Flow Use-Case of Breast Cancer Treatment -- Modeling Inter-Institutional Healthcare Workflows by Active Documents. In: 19th Int'l Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (Org.) : Proc of the 8th Int'l Workshop on Agent-based Computing for Enterprise Collaboration (19th Int'l Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2010) Larissa, Greece 28.-30.06.2010). 2010, pp -.
[doi>10.1109/WETICE.2010.8]

Todorova, Aneliya ; Neumann, Christoph P.: alpha-Props: A Rule-Based Approach to 'Active Properties' for Document-Oriented Process Support in Inter-Institutional Environments. In: Porada, Ludger (Ed.) : Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) (Org.) : Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) Seminars 10 / Informatiktage 2011. xx : xx, 2011, pp -. - ISBN 978-3-88579-444-8

Neumann, Christoph P. ; Schwab Peter K. ; Wahl, Andreas Maximilian ; Lenz, Richard: alpha-Adaptive: Evolutionary Workflow Metadata in Distributed Document-Oriented Process Management. In: ProHealth ´11 (Org.) : Proc of the 4th Int'l Workshop on Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare (ProHealth'11) in conjunction with the 9th Int'l Conf on Business Process Management (BPM'11) (ProHealth'11 Clermont-Ferrand, FR August 2011). 2011, pp -.

Neumann, Christoph P. ; Wahl, Andreas Maximilian ; Lenz, Richard: Adaptive Version Clocks and the OffSync Protocol. In: IEEE (Org.) : Proc of the 10th IEEE Int'l Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA-12 (10th IEEE Int'l Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications Madrid, Spain July 2012). 2012, pp -.

Wahl, Andreas Maximilian ; Neumann, Christoph P.: alpha-OffSync: An Offline-Capable Synchronization Approach for Distributed Document-Oriented Process Management in Healthcare. In: Porada, Ludger (Ed.) : Gesellschaft für Informatik (Org.) : Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) Seminars 11 / Informatiktage 2012 (GI Informatiktage 2012 Bonn, Germany 23./24.3.2012). 2012, pp -. - ISBN 978-3-88579-444-8

Neumann, Christoph P. ; Hady, Scott A. ; Lenz, Richard: Hydra Version Control System. In: IEEE (Org.) : Proc of the 10th IEEE Int'l Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA-12 (10th IEEE Int'l Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications Madrid, Spain July 2012). 2012, pp -.