Introduction to the first international workshop on process-oriented information systems in healthcare (ProHealth’07)

The proHealth’07 workshop is held in Brisbane in conjunction with the fifth international conference on business process management. ProHealth’07 elaborates both the potential and the limitations of IT support for healthcare processes. It further provides a forum wherein challenges, paradigms, and tools for optimized process support in healthcare can be debated. In particular, proHealth’07 brings together researchers and practitioners from different communities (e.g., BPM, information systems, medical informatics, E-Health) who share an interest in both healthcare process support and advanced BPM technologies. The workshop deals with different facets of process-oriented healthcare information systems, and gives insights into the social and technological challenges, applications, and perspectives emerging for BPM in this context