Dealing with Dynamic Workflow in Healthcare

Dominic Covvey(FACMI, FHIMSS),
Professor and NSERC/Agfa Research Chair in Health Informatics, Faculty of Science
Founding Director, Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research
University of Waterloo

April 12, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Davis Centre 1304, University of Waterloo

View Video of Presentation in HI Alive Archive: Research Seminars Archive 2005-2006

Abstract
This seminar will provide a high-level overview of the research efforts of the Workflow Research and Knowledge (WoRK) group at the University of Waterloo. We have been studying workflow and business process management representations and systems, and the nature of healthcare processes, with the goal of defining new frameworks for representing and evaluating dynamic environments.

We will provide an introduction to workflow concepts, the differences between static and dynamic workflows, the contextual knowledge associated with workflows, the challenge of representing and evaluating workflows, as well as our current thinking regarding the representation of dynamic workflows, workflow mining and other topics.

Our examples will be based on actual processes in a Diagnostic Imaging department.

About the Speaker:
Dominic Covvey is a Professor, the NSERC/Agfa Executive Industrial Research Chair in Health Informatics in the Faculty of Science, and the Founding Director of the Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research at the University of Waterloo. His research is in the area of the representation and evaluation of workflow in healthcare settings, the economics of IT in the health system, and the design of the Electronic Health Record.

He has published 6 books, 3 book chapters, and several hundred papers, and he is a frequent speaker at international Health Informatics conferences. Dominic is a member of the Ontario Hospitals eHealth Council and the eHealth Alignment Review Board of the Ontario eHealth Secretariat. Dominic is a Fellow of ACMI and of HIMSS, a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM, AMIA, API, AHIMA, CCS, CLMA, CIPS, and COACH. He is also a CIPS-certified Information Systems Professional.