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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Business Process Management for the Crohn’s Disease Clinical Process

Authors : Alberto de Ramón-Fernández, Diego Marcos-Jorquera, Antonio Soriano-Payá, Virgilio Gilart-Iglesias, Daniel Ruiz-Fernández, Javier Ramirez-Navarro

Published in: Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Crohn’s disease belongs to the group of inflammatory bowel diseases. The current process of disease management has significant weaknesses that cause high cost for health systems and a significant loss of quality of life for the patient. This paper shows a new approach to redesign process for the management of Crohn’s disease based on Business Process Management strategy. This approach seeks to improve the patient empowerment and self-management, reducing costs and obtaining constant and updated information throughout the process.

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Metadata
Title
Business Process Management for the Crohn’s Disease Clinical Process
Authors
Alberto de Ramón-Fernández
Diego Marcos-Jorquera
Antonio Soriano-Payá
Virgilio Gilart-Iglesias
Daniel Ruiz-Fernández
Javier Ramirez-Navarro
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-48745-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-48746-5

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48746-5_8

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