tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600Fri, 01 Nov 2024 08:11:29 +0000BPMN2Healthcarethesiscare pathwaysRCMReferenceModelsclinical pathwaysEuropeanBPMRoundTableproudBPMNFHIESFHIES2012HealthITMDEModelworldheuristicsusability#BPMN2 #Healthcarehttp://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)Blogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-6119886699509523663Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:19:00 +00002012-11-23T16:19:53.309+01:00BPMN2heuristicsReferenceModelsthesisI am developing two different heuristics to translate and fix process models from a poor quality to a good quality. It should be possible to provide a generable way to improve process models by using heuristics, hence heureka! The process models I retrieved from the hospital are all modeled in Visio, which makes these processes static, not-executable, and hard to analyze. To be able to analyze http://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2012/11/heureka.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)2Eindhoven, Nederland51.441642 5.469722551.3624645 5.311794 51.5208195 5.6276509999999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-6925234383713300449Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:20:00 +00002012-11-09T13:20:30.385+01:00BPMN2EuropeanBPMRoundTableReferenceModelsI had a meeting with my mentor Pieter Van Gorp where we talked about the visualization of a reference model as described in previous blog post. We have evaluated the different options and I gave it a second thought, and I want to share those thoughts with you. Pieter and I agreed to use the option which I call conventional process modeling. This because it is easier to start with and when there http://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2012/11/visualization-of-reference-model.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)2Eindhoven, Nederland51.441642 5.469722551.3624645 5.311794 51.5208195 5.6276509999999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-1172420575839806159Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:06:00 +00002012-11-06T14:06:57.249+01:00EuropeanBPMRoundTableReferenceModels It wasn't trending topic (#EuropeanBPMRoundTable) on twitter, unfortunately, but it was very interesting though. The BPM Round Table isn’t something medieval, and BPM has nothing to with music, at least not in this definition. It is a discussion group with representatives from both research and companies, and they present their work which has something to do with Business Process Management (BPMhttp://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2012/11/european-bpm-round-table.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)1Eindhoven, Nederland51.441642 5.469722551.3624645 5.311794 51.5208195 5.6276509999999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-1046176661891575689Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:03:00 +00002012-08-30T11:07:13.594+02:00FHIESHealthITMDEusability I’m back from the Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems Symposium in Paris. It was an interesting meeting with a high variety of papers. And being in Paris for a couple of days was not bad either ;). You can see the slides below I used during the symposium. I have learned a lot from this symposium; in a nutshell I have learned that usability is very important, because http://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2012/08/fhies-symposium.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)0Parijs, Frankrijk48.856614 2.352221948.773036 2.1942934 48.940192 2.5101504tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-3953068410520689904Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:39:00 +00002012-07-17T09:05:39.534+02:00FHIES2012HealthcareproudthesisNo fancy pictures/graphics this time or a long (for some abracadabra) piece of text. No, this time just a short update about the progress of my master thesis and some good news about a new project I am really excited about. In the last couple of weeks I've been working on processes in a hospital near Eindhoven, The Netherlands. I am not sure what I'm allowed to say about these http://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2012/07/process-model-selection-and-fhies2012.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)2Eindhoven, Nederland51.441642 5.469722551.3624645 5.311794 51.5208195 5.6276509999999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-2650647131287215213Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:05:00 +00002012-06-15T10:05:43.056+02:00HealthcarethesisI added a new page on my blog. Click here to see an explanation of my thesis! PS. You can go there manually as well, see the new tab below the title of the bloghttp://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2012/06/explanation-added-on-new-page.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)1Eindhoven, Nederland51.441642 5.469722551.3624645 5.311794 51.5208195 5.6276509999999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-2568426220330897701Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:53:00 +00002012-06-07T11:53:31.804+02:00care pathwaysHealthcareproudRCMMy first publication is a fact! Check http://beta.ieis.tue.nl/node/2019 for my literature study. Check http://is.ieis.tue.nl/staff/pvgorp/research/#mde4dss12 where this literature study is used for. http://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2012/06/my-first-publication.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)0Eindhoven, Nederland51.441642 5.469722551.3624645 5.311794 51.5208195 5.6276509999999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-7637006565810626341Mon, 14 May 2012 13:07:00 +00002012-05-14T15:08:58.542+02:00BPMN2RCMthesisIn this blog post I will introduce the roadmap for the rest of this master thesis project, but first I will give a brief summary of the literature review. A very brief summary! Central Park seen from Top Of The Rock The main reason why it took some time since my last post was a trip to New York City (see the picture). While I was in NYC Pieter assessed my literature study and graded it with http://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2012/05/roadmap-of-master-thesis-project.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)0Eindhoven, Nederland51.441642 5.469722551.3624645 5.311794 51.5208195 5.6276509999999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-364675296861071431Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:25:00 +00002012-04-13T11:25:10.539+02:00BPMN2care pathwaysHealthcareRCMthesisAbout a month ago I wrote a post with the title "What is a care pathway?" and gave one definition for a care pathway and its synonyms (clinical-, critical, integrated care pathway, and care map). However, I was not pleased with this because I still didn’t know what was meant by it. So I kept looking for other definitions, and found some more. I kept looking for other definitions, and http://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2012/04/reference-concept-map.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)2Eindhoven, Nederland51.441642 5.469722551.3624645 5.311794 51.5208195 5.6276509999999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-8204444856576832790Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:09:00 +00002012-04-04T13:12:00.540+02:00BPMN2clinical pathwaysHealthcarethesisFriday the 30th of March I been to Antwerp together with Pieter Van Gorp to talk to H. Van Der Mussele and J. De Sitter. They are policy makers in the GasthuisZusters Antwerpen hospital (GZA) and are working on a new system. In this post I will tell you everything I’ve noticed and what I’ve learned. First I will inform you about the goal of the project form the university’s point of view and whathttp://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2012/04/modeling-care-processes-in-gza-hospital.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)0Oosterveldlaan 24, 2610 Antwerpen, België51.174836510780096 4.41802740097045951.1735920107801 4.4155599009704591 51.176081010780095 4.4204949009704588tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-3956812301923074856Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:00:00 +00002012-03-02T16:00:42.492+01:00BPMN2care pathwaysclinical pathwaysAs mentioned in one of the previous post I will split up the literature review in three parts. The first literature study will be about the various terms that are used to identify a clinical pathway. In this blog post I will mention the newest update after a meeting with my mentor and I will present you the method that I will use during this literature study. Also the research question for the http://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2012/03/methodology.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)0Eindhoven, Nederland51.441642 5.469722551.3624645 5.311794 51.5208195 5.6276509999999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-2170918212083876826Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:18:00 +00002012-02-24T12:19:29.390+01:00care pathwaysclinical pathwaysAfter the previous post I have been thinking about the used search key to find some literature. I came to the conclusion that the term care pathway was not completely clear to me. There are some questions that I couldn’t answer. One of these questions was about the definitions of a care pathway. What is a care pathway? How is it defined? And after reading some article about care pathways, I came http://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-is-care-pathway.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)3Eindhoven, Nederland51.441642 5.469722551.3624645 5.311794 51.5208195 5.6276509999999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-4697713813370554127Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:57:00 +00002012-02-24T12:20:50.880+01:00BPMNcare pathwaysHealthcareIt has been a very long time since I posted an update, but that has to do with the exams. Hopefully I passed all exams now (I really think so) and I can start focusing on my literature study. What have I been doing so far this first week? I read some general (background) papers and I searched for some more specific papers. The search key I have been using is based on the question: Is BPMN2.0 the http://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2012/02/literature-study-part-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)0Eindhoven, Nederland51.441642 5.469722551.3624645 5.311794 51.5208195 5.6276509999999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-4688135839640172240Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:53:00 +00002011-12-23T21:26:42.799+01:00If you want to be kept up to date, then subscribe yourself and receive an email with the newest blogpost. You can subscribe yourself in the sidebar on the right. N.B. You will receive one mail between 17:00 and 19:00 per day (only on days something is changed on the blog)http://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2011/12/stay-up-to-date.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-7803200315962167990Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:31:00 +00002012-02-25T10:48:09.266+01:00BPMN2HealthcareModelworldthesisHmm, that's a pity! The tool I was planning to use is not working as I would like it to work. To explain it, this will become a rather technical story for some of you. For others however this will be a piece of cake!  Here we go:I modeled a Recruitment process in modelworld.nl and while running through the process I ran into the error that it is possible to ‘fire’ both the processes in the http://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2011/12/limitation-of-used-tool-and-potential.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)1Eindhoven, Nederland51.441641999999987 5.469722499999988951.393182999999986 5.3746539999999889 51.490100999999989 5.5647909999999889tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-1007981651610033036Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:02:00 +00002012-02-25T10:48:22.693+01:00BPMN2HealthcarethesisSo, here we are again. It is one month ago since my last post, but not much progress has been made. Main reason is because I have been busy with my final master courses. The last exams will be in the last week of January and the first week of February. After the exams I will have lots of time to focus on my master thesis. However, before I start with my thesis in February I have to study some http://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2011/12/literature-study.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8913843344846700600.post-5239124364055968053Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:48:00 +00002012-02-25T10:48:34.873+01:00BPMN2HealthcarethesisMy name is Willem Dalinghaus and I am a student at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. The reason why I started this blog is to get input from everybody who is interested and/or has some kind of feedback about my master thesis. My thesis is about the use of BPMN 2.0 in the healthcare domain. I will try to make a reference model for some processes which are (almost) the same http://masterthesisbpmn.blogspot.com/2011/10/kick-off.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (W. Dalinghaus)1Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, 5612 Eindhoven, Nederland51.4488798 5.490454099999965451.4451573 5.4800410999999656 51.4526023 5.5008670999999651