A guide for the application of analytics on healthcare processes: A dynamic view on patient pathways.

Objective: The aim of this study is to guide healthcare instances in applying process analytics on healthcare processes. Process analytics techniques can offer new insights in patient pathways, workflow processes, adherence to medical guidelines and compliance with clinical pathways, but also bring along specific challenges which will be examined and addressed in this paper.

Methods: The following methodology is proposed: log preparation, log inspection, abstraction and selection, clustering, process mining, and validation.