I’m delighted to see Business Process Management (BPM) cited in the recent PCAST Systems Engineering in Health Care report Better Healthcare and Lower Costs: Accelerating Improvement Through Systems Engineering.
Systems Engineering used to be called Industrial Engineering. I have a graduate degree in IE. My old department at the University of Illinois is now called [...]
On June 16th I’m presenting BPM and Case Management: US Healthcare Wants You, But May Not Know It, Yet at the BPM & Case Management Global Summit (archive) here in DC. I hope to meet you and talk shop! I’ll be tweeting about my presentation and the conference, so I hope we can “tweet shop” [...]
I see convergence between care coordination platforms and business process management tech used to implement them. The following slide crystalized this for me.
#ACO needs
1 Common #EHR
2 Data warehouse
3 Care coordination platform (IMO shld use workflow tech)
#hcbizintel pic.twitter.com/LxP9iVmgS9
— Charles Webster, MD (@wareFLO) April 16, 2014
An Accountable Care Organization, or ACO, is [...]
Anyone who follows me on Twitter, or reads more than one of my blog posts, knows I’m the self-styled King Of All Workflow In Healthcare. It’s good-natured ironic puffery dedicated to a good cause. Healthcare has a workflow problem: why not use workflow technology (AKA Business Process Management, or BPM) to solve it, or at [...]
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Bio: HIMSS14, HIMSS15, and HIMSS16 Social Media Ambassador! If you've got a healthcare workflow story, I want to tell it, blog it, tweet it, interview you, etc. Chuck Webster, MD, MSIE, MSIS has degrees in Accountancy, Industrial Engineering, Intelligent Systems, and Medicine (from the University of Chicago). He's the ex-CMIO for a three-time HIMSS Davies Award-winning pediatric EHR. Dr. Webster currently services as CMIMO (Chief Medical Informatics Marketing Officer) for workflow technology in healthcare. Chuck also created Mr. RIMP (@MrRIMP) (Robot-In-My-Pocket) a Bluetooth-controlled wearable robot for pediatricians and child life specialists to entertain children. Dr. Webster designed the first undergraduate program in medical informatics, was a software architect in a hospital MIS department, and is a judge for the annual Workflow Management Coalition Awards for Excellence in BPM and Workflow and Awards for Case Management. Chuck is a ceaseless evangelist for process-aware technologies in healthcare, including workflow management systems, Business Process Management, and dynamic and adaptive case management. Dr. Webster tweets from @wareFLO, @HealthITdog, and @MrRIMP (though there is some debate about the last two). He maintains almost a half-a-million words and graphics on numerous websites, including EHR Workflow Management Systems (http://chuckwebster.com), Healthcare Business Process Management (http://HCBPM.com) and the People and Organizations improving Healthcare with Health Information Technology (http://EHRworkflow.com). Please join with Chuck to spread the message: Viva la workflow!
