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Intelligent automation: A confluence of data and process automation standards
The time is ripe for automating a health care system that is increasingly expensive and whose quality is difficult to gauge. However, if we don’t establish standards at the outset, vendors will develop their own process automation models, which won’t be able to connect and communicate with one another.
To keep that from happening, we have both joined an open-source, open-standards community called BPM+ Health. The
goal of that broad-reaching community
is to evaluate business process modeling standards developed in other industries
and apply them to improving and managing health care practices and workflows.
If we automate health care with proprietary IT tools and machines, patient care will still be of low reliability and
won’t flow over boundaries. If we automate and orchestrate health care the open way, then we will bring an era of high-reliability health care for all stakeholders.
Shane McNamee, MD, is chief medical information officer at Perspecta and chief health information officer for BPM+ Health. Ben Cushing is director of federal health and science at Red Hat.
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