Healthcare workflow

Workflow in healthcare is a term for expressing in a computerized format processes which represent the flow of task in particular healthcare procedures.

Workflow management technology (see workflow) is not used in healthcare as often as in other domains.

However workflow engines can be very useful to manage processes.

Workflow software can be also used as a clinical guideline (see clinical guideline execution engine. guideline execution engine

You can reuse the:

- workflow editor as guideline editor

- workflow engine as guideline execution engine

The main standards for encoding workflow are

-XPDL

-BPM Stack