Applying Concepts of Process Mining in Healthcare (Case study, Treatment of Sepsis Patient in Omdurman Military Hospital)

  Nazar Babiker Yousif,  Dr. Mohammed Izzadien

Healthcare processes are a series of activities aimed to diagnose, treat and prevent any diseases in order to improve a patient’s health. The provision of high-quality services depends to a very great extent on the appropriate and efficient execution of such processes and could have a great impact on the quality of life of the patient. In this paper, we demonstrate the applicability of process mining to the healthcare domain by examining how such an approach can be used to obtain insights related to care flow. This research case study was conducted in Omdurman Military Hospital, with the aim of improving the healthcare process through applying process mining principles and techniques. Healthcare processes were analyzed from different perspectives. By using the ProM6.9 framework, relevant event logs were extracted from the hospital’s information system and analyzed to find out the degree of compliance with the medical guidelines of a group of patients affected by sepsis. This study has used three algorithms - heuristic, inductive visual miner and multi-perspective process explorer (MPE) - for the process analysis. The results show that process mining can be used to provide new insights that facilitate the improvement of existing care flows in the health sector.

Keywords- Data Science, Healthcare, Healthcare processes, Process Mining, ProM6.9.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR2001116
Page Number(s) - 622-628
Pubished in - Volume 8 | Issue 1 | March 2020
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Nazar Babiker Yousif,  Dr. Mohammed Izzadien,   "Applying Concepts of Process Mining in Healthcare (Case study, Treatment of Sepsis Patient in Omdurman Military Hospital)", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.8, Issue 1, pp.622-628, March 2020, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR2001116.pdf