Clinical Pathways

In many domains, when a process is executed, there are observed discrepancies between the expected and the real behavior and, consequently, in the outcomes. Medical processes are no exception. In this article, we discuss process mining applicability in healthcare management.

Despite the increased utilization of clinical pathways as a strategy to improve patient and system outcomes in hospitals, ongoing challenges remain with their conceptualization, implementation, and evaluation.

Clinical pathways take into account the purely clinical aspects of a pathology treatment, leading to several inefficiencies. In this article, we invite Raquel Felicio to explore how to add an operational approach to clinical pathways and its advantages.

Interested in developing and implementing a clinical pathway? In this article, we share some practice tips to guide a design session for clinical pathways.

We have already mentioned some major disadvantages of having multiple ways to represent medical algorithms and our approach to this problem – UpHill Notation. In this article, we detail how it works.

Standardize medicine processes through random languages seems a contradiction, but it happens with the great majority of clinical pathways, algorithms, diagrams or protocols.

In this article, we explore how to translate general practice guidelines into customized protocols accordingly to your hospital’s needs and resources, and how to structure clinical pathways with different granularity levels.