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[Openflow-dev] Re: Workflow Standards vs PROforma
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From: Andrew po-j. H. <and...@eu...> - 2001-03-20 21:58:59
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:41:10 Wayne Wilson wrote: >Bud P. Bruegger wrote ... >> Proforma is totally unrelated to workflow >> standards ... >>it is mostly concerned with >> decision support and much less with actual workflow. >> >Unrelated technically perhaps, but as someone else pointed out, clinical >decision making can be thought of as a node in a workflow. I think that was me :-). I would go a step further and point out that any decision making process is a workflow, just like any task. ... >Exactly the situation, either you can't find any code, or you find really old and >obsolete systems and standards. The promise of merging openflow and OIO, it seems to me, is to give extensible data objects to openflow and give time and criteria dependent task management to OIO. As I have been designing the "studies" metadata for OIO, I repeatedly come up with solutions that look exactly like workflow systems. I am sure this is the case in all business and heath information systems. Hopefully, we will be able to come up with a solution that will be sufficiently extensible and interoperable with other "plug-and-play" workflow systems. That is what "open" means in "Open Infrastructure for Outcomes". What I like about the PROforma system is that it has been designed and applied to the same problem space that OIO seeks to address (medical treatment/research). The big question, however, is whether it is extensible enough to support other applications of workflow (e.g. Bud's Laborary system). Even if it is not based on an OMG standard, it _may_ still be a good open standard. (Whether or not it is "open" remains unknown.) Bud, do you think it is reasonable to start with PROforma and extend it to serve as a more gereric workflow engine? How different are PROforma and OpenFlow in terms of the range of workflow that they can model? How hard would it be to make PROforma interoperate with one of the generic workflow standards? Thanks, Andrew --- Andrew P. Ho, M.D. OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes www.TxOutcome.Org Assistant Clinical Professor Department of Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center University of California, Los Angeles Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com |
