Healthcare workflow

Healthcare workflow

Workflow in healthcare is an important term for today's physicians. The workflow describes the full process of how the office and patient work with each other. From the moment the patient calls to setup and exam, to the billers working on the claims, this is all inclusive in a true workflow. Office administrators are tasked with improving the workflow and making it more econimical and more time efficient. Workflow in recent years has started to conjurr an additional meaning - how an EMR operates. See also healthcare procedures.

Workflow management technology (see workflow) is not used in healthcare as often as in other domains. However workflow engines can be very useful to manage processes. Workflow software can be also used as a clinical guideline (see clinical guideline execution engine. guideline execution engine


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