Process Modeling and Management for Healthcare

Process modeling and process management are traversal disciplines which have earned more and more relevance over the last two decades. Several research areas are involved within these disciplines, including database systems, database management, information systems, ERP, operations research, formal languages, and logic. This book aims to provide the reader with an in-depth analysis of what process modeling and management techniques can do in healthcare, the major challenges faced, and those challenges still forthcoming. In order to cover these major topics in-depth, the book features contributions from the leading experts in the field of process modeling and management in healthcare.

Carlo Combi is Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
He received the Laurea Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico of Milano in 1987. He received the Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering in 1993. He was in 1994 and 1995 Post-Doc fellow at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the Politecnico of Milano. From 1987 to 1996 he worked within the research group in Medical Informatics at the Politecnico of Milan. From April 1996 to October 2001, Carlo Combi was with the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Udine, Italy, as Assistant Professor. Since November 2001, he has been with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Verona, Italy. From November 2001 to February 2005, he was Associate Professor of Computer Science; since March 2005, he has been Professor of Computer Science. From October 2007 to September 2012, he served as head of the Department of Computer Science.

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Giuseppe Pozzi is Associate Professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria of the Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy. He received the Laurea Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico of Milano on June 1986. He received the Ph.D. degree on July 1992. On December 1992 he received a post-doc fellowship from Politecnico di Milano. From October 1st, 1993 to October 31st, 2002 he served as research assistant at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione of the Politecnico di Milano. Since November 1st, 2002 he has been associate professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria of the Politecnico di Milano. Giuseppe Pozzi’s past interests include computer-based analysis of the electrocardiographical signal, multiservice software for medicine, biomedical image compression, classification of public domain medical software, object-oriented and temporal databases for medicine. At present, his interests are mainly focused on active database systems, their application to WorkFlow Management Systems (WFMS), temporal databases and the management of temporal aspects in WfMSs. He is author/coauthor of more than 100 papers. He co-authored 4 books.

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Pierangelo Veltri is Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Computer Science at the Medicine and Surgical Science Department, University Magna Gracia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Orsay (Paris XI) in 2002. He was researcher with European fellows from 1998 to 2002 at INRIA of Rocquencourt, France working in the Verso Database Group, and contract teacher from 2000 to 2002 at University of Paris XIII. From 2002 to 2011 has been assistant professor at University of Catanzaro, where he is currently associate professor. His research interests are in database area, bioinformatics and health informatics.