Healthcare Innovation February 26, 2020
One key use case for BPM+Health is to ease dissemination of clinical policies and recommendations from specialty societies to clinical settings
One of the challenges of the Veterans Administration’s transition from its VISTA platform to Cerner was that over many years the VA had hard-coded more than 1,200 clinical pathways into VISTA. VA informaticians sought the best way to communicate with the Cerner engineers about what they wanted in the build-out. The standard they eventually chose to use for workflow, Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), is now starting to gain momentum, with a new organization of informatics heavy hitters in an organization called BPM+Health developing ways to create shareable clinical pathways.
Widely used in other industries, BPMN is...