6th International Workshop on
Process-Oriented Data Science for Healthcare
(PODS4H23)

— This workshop is organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2023) in Rome (Italy) on October 23, 2023 —

The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data. The ultimate goal of data science techniques is not to collect more data, but to extract knowledge and valuable insights from existing data in various forms. To analyze and improve processes, event data is the main source of information. In recent years, a new discipline has emerged combining traditional process analysis and data-centric analysis: Process-Oriented Data Science (PODS). The interdisciplinary nature of this new research area has resulted in its application to analyze processes in a wide variety of domains. This workshop has an explicit focus on healthcare.

The International Workshop on Process-Oriented Data Science for Healthcare 2023 (PODS4H23) provides a high-quality forum for interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to exchange research findings and ideas on data-driven process analysis techniques and practices in healthcare. PODS4H research includes a variety of topics ranging from process mining techniques adapted for healthcare processes, to practical issues related to the implementation of PODS methodologies in healthcare organizations.

During the 6th edition of our workshop, we aim to bring together researchers and practitioners in a spirit of collaboration and co-creation. In this way, we have the ambition to move PODS4H research and practice forward, taking into account the distinguishing characteristics and challenges of the healthcare domain which were recently published in the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2022.103994).

This workshop is an initiative of the Process-Oriented Data Science for Healthcare Alliance  within the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining

Web: www.pods4h.com
Twitter: @PODS4H
Hashtag: #PODS4H2023

Important Dates

FULL PAPERS (closed for new submissions)

  • Abstract submission deadline: 22 August 2023
  • Paper submission deadline: 22 August 2023 28 August 2023 (extended)
  • Notification of acceptance: 12 September 2023 19 September 2023
  • Camera ready submission (pre-workshop):  3 October 2023
  • Workshop day:  23 October 2023
  • Post-workshop proceedings camera ready: 7 November 2023

ABSTRACTS AND POSTERS (closed for new submissions)

  • Submission deadline:  20 September 2023 27 September 2023 (extended)
  • Notification of acceptance:  ongoing review (*)
  • Camera ready submission:  21 October 2023
  • Workshop day:  23 October 2023

Deadlines correspond to anywhere on earth (‘AoE’ or ‘UTC-12′)

(*) Ongoing review: in principle within two weeks after submission, 2 October 2023 at the latest

Workshop Topics

Submitted works should focus on the analysis, management, or improvement of processes using recorded data in the healthcare domain. Approaches which are not process-centric are considered out of scope. The workshop aims to compose a program containing both more theoretical contributions related to new techniques and algorithms, as well as more applied contributions such as methodologies and real-life case studies. We are looking forward to welcoming submissions from PODS4H researchers regarding their latest research results. Moreover, we highly encourage practitioners active in the healthcare domain to share their experiences and contribute to the workshop.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Process Mining in Healthcare
  • Process Discovery in Healthcare
  • Data-aided Process Modeling in Healthcare
  • Conformance Checking and Compliance Analysis of Healthcare Processes
  • Data-aided Process Enhancement and Repair
  • Healthcare Process Prediction and Recommendation
  • Healthcare Process Simulation
  • Healthcare Process Optimization
  • Process-Aware Hospital Information Systems Analysis and Data Extraction
  • Interfaces for PODS4H
  • Disease-driven PODS4H
  • Methodologies for PODS4H
  • Best Practices for PODS4H
  • Case Studies of PODS4H
  • WACI (Wild And Crazy Ideas) for PODS4H

Submission Instructions

Two types of submissions are considered: (1) full papers – research papers and case studies, and (2) abstracts and posters.

FULL PAPERS – RESEARCH PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES

For the full papers, a distinction is made between research papers and case studies. Research papers should focus on extending the state of the art of PODS4H research. Case studies should focus on a practical application of PODS4H in a real-life context and should clearly illustrate the distinguishing characteristics and challenges associated with PODS4H (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2022.103994). Submissions should explicitly indicate whether they are a research paper or a case study by adding “Research Paper” or “Case Study” at the end of their title or as a subtitle.

Submitted full papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, originality, technical quality, and their potential to generate a relevant discussion, while taking into account whether it is a research paper or a case study. Submissions must use the Springer LNCS/LNBIP format. Submissions must be in English and cannot exceed 12 pages (including tables, figures, the bibliography and appendices). Besides stating whether the submission is a research paper or a case study, each paper should clarify the relation of the paper to the workshop’s main topics, clearly state the problem being addressed, the proposed solution, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. Papers should be submitted electronically as a self-contained PDF file via the Easychair submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icpm2023 and select “Process-Oriented Data Science for Healthcare”). Submissions must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this workshop. Accepted full papers will be presented during one of the workshop’s sessions and will be published by Springer as a post-workshop proceedings volume in the series Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). At least one author of each accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop.

ABSTRACTS AND POSTERS

Abstracts are an accessible way to share your ideas and experiences with the PODS4H community. They can focus on more theoretical contributions (new algorithms or techniques), but submissions on practical applications of existing methods or related to practical experiences are especially welcomed.

Abstracts should be in English and cannot exceed 250 words. Abstracts should be submitted electronically via the Easychair submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icpm2023 and select “Process-Oriented Data Science for Healthcare”). They will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and we have the firm ambition to provide you with a notification within two weeks after submission. Authors of accepted abstracts are entitled to participate in the workshop’s poster session and will get the opportunity to give a short pitch during one of the workshop’s sessions. Upon request of the author, the poster can be published on the workshop’s website, but the abstract and poster will not be part of the post-workshop proceedings. At least one author of each accepted submission must register and participate in the workshop. The author is responsible for bringing a printed copy of the poster to the workshop.

Journal Special Issue

A selection of the best ICPM workshop papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems.

Program

Venue (for all sessions): Auditorium Antonianum (Viale Manzoni, 1, 00185 Rome) – Room San Francesco

09:00 – 10:30: SESSION 1 – Chair: Carlos Fernandez-Llatas

  • Welcome and opening – Niels Martin on behalf of the Organizing Committee
  • Owen P. Dwyer, Lara Chammas, Emanuel Sallinger and Jim Davies – Investigating an Ontology-Informed Approach to Event Log Generation in Healthcare (full paper – research paper)
  • Elisabeth Mayrhuber, Emmanuel Helm and Lisa Ehrlinger – Ontology-based Multi-Perspective Process Mining in Laboratories: A Case Study (full paper – case study)
  • Ruben Claus, Niels Martin, Gert Janssenswillen, Esther R.C. Janssen, Tim A.E.J. Boymans and Rob J.B. Vanwersch – Using Process Mining to Explore the Impact of Socio-economic Status on the Treatment of Musculoskeletal Disorders – A Case Study (full paper – case study)
  • Short poster presentations:
    • Martin Kuhn, Joscha Grüger, Tobias Geyer and Ralph Bergmann – Leveraging Taxonomy Similarity for Next Activity Prediction in Patient Treatment (abstract and poster)
    • Alexander Coles, Paul Carroll, Richard Lyne, Robert Spaight and Owen Johnson – Real-World Application of Process Mining to the Emergency Care Pathway in a UK Ambulance Trust (abstract and poster)

10:30 – 11:15: COFFEE BREAK

11:15 – 12:45: SESSION 2 – Chair: Niels Martin

  • Joscha Grüger and Ralph Bergmann – Enhancing Clinical Insights: Knowledge-intensive and context-sensitive process instance visualization in health care (full paper – research paper)
  • Gemma Di Federico, Carlos Fernández-Llatas, Zahra Ahmadi, Mohsen Shirali and Andrea Burattin – Identifying Variation in Personal Daily Routine Through Process Mining: A Case Study (full paper – case study)
  • Carlos Fernandez-Llatas and Andrea Burattin – I-PALIA: Discovering BPMN Processes with Duplicated Activities for Healthcare Domains (full paper – research paper)
  • Short poster presentations:
    • Davide Aloini, Elisabetta Benevento, Marco Berdini and Alessandro Stefanini – Forecasting Emergency Department Service Demand: A Machine Learning and Process Mining-based Approach (abstract and poster)
    • Joscha Grüger, Emmelien De Roock, Niels Martin, Filip van Droogenbroeck and Ralph Bergmann – A Delphi Study on the Process-Related Challenges Faced by Healthcare Professionals in Hospital Settings (abstract and poster)
    • William Van Woensel – PQN: Flexible and Extensible Process Trace Querying in Notation3 (abstract and poster)
    • Abdulaziz Aljebreen and Owen Johnson – Using Process Mining for Emergency Admission Prediction (abstract and poster)
    • Tobias Geyer, Joscha Grüger and Ralph Bergmann – The seamless transition to aftercare: Leveraging analogy-based AI techniques (abstract and poster)
    • Floor Rademaker, Rob Bemthuis, Jeewanie Jayasinghe Arachchige and Faiza Bukhsh – Process Mining for Sepsis Care Path Analysis – A Subpopulation Case Study (abstract and poster)

12:45 – 14:15: LUNCH BREAK

14:15 – 15:45: SESSION 3 – Chair: Owen Johnson

  • Milad Naeimaei Aali, Felix Mannhardt and Pieter Jelle Toussaint – Clinical event knowledge graphs: Enriching healthcare event data with entities and clinical concepts (full paper – research paper)
  • Mariachiara Savino, Carlos Fernandez-Llatas, Roberto Gatta, Giuditta Chiloiro, Silvia Di Franco, Gema Ibanez-Sanchez, Zoe Valero-Ramon, Maria Antonietta Gambacorta, Vincenzo Valentini and Andrea Damiani – Error-Correcting Methodology for Evaluating Compliance to Clinical Guidelines: a Case Study on Rectal Cancer (full paper – case study)
  • Zoe Hancox, Samuel Relton, Andrew Clegg, Philip Conaghan and Dan Schofield – Hypergraphs for Frailty Analysis (full paper – research paper)
  • Short poster presentations:
    • Francesca Ferré, Chiara Seghieri, Sima Sarv Ahrabi, Andrea Burattin and Andrea Vandin – On Process Mining and Clinical Pathways: overview of an application to Breast cancer data in Tuscany (abstract and poster)
    • Emmelien De Roock, Niels Martin and Filip Van Droogenbroeck – What Do Healthcare Professionals Really Want to Know? Discerning the information needs of healthcare professionals at an emergency department (abstract and poster)
    • Ruihua Guo, Lawrence Shen, Adeline Yap and Simon Poon – Evidence-based process discovery for medical informatics research and translation: A systematic consideration towards quality of evidence (abstract and poster)
    • Konstantin Georgiev, Jacques Fleuriot, Joanne McPeake, Susan Shenkin and Atul Anand – Exploring Rehabilitation Care Pathways from Electronic Health Records of Patients with COVID-19 (abstract and poster)
  • PODS4H 2023 award ceremony – Niels Martin on behalf of the Organizing Committee

15:45 – 16:30: COFFEE BREAK

16:30 – 18:00: POSTER SESSION – Chair: Niels Martin

  • Martin Kuhn, Joscha Grüger, Tobias Geyer and Ralph Bergmann – Leveraging Taxonomy Similarity for Next Activity Prediction in Patient Treatment (abstract and poster)
  • Alexander Coles, Paul Carroll, Richard Lyne, Robert Spaight and Owen Johnson – Real-World Application of Process Mining to the Emergency Care Pathway in a UK Ambulance Trust (abstract and poster)
  • Davide Aloini, Elisabetta Benevento, Marco Berdini and Alessandro Stefanini – Forecasting Emergency Department Service Demand: A Machine Learning and Process Mining-based Approach (abstract and poster)
  • Joscha Grüger, Emmelien De Roock, Niels Martin, Filip van Droogenbroeck and Ralph Bergmann – A Delphi Study on the Process-Related Challenges Faced by Healthcare Professionals in Hospital Settings (abstract and poster)
  • William Van Woensel – PQN: Flexible and Extensible Process Trace Querying in Notation3 (abstract and poster)
  • Abdulaziz Aljebreen and Owen Johnson – Using Process Mining for Emergency Admission Prediction (abstract and poster)
  • Tobias Geyer, Joscha Grüger and Ralph Bergmann – The seamless transition to aftercare: Leveraging analogy-based AI techniques (abstract and poster)
  • Francesca Ferré, Chiara Seghieri, Sima Sarv Ahrabi, Andrea Burattin and Andrea Vandin – On Process Mining and Clinical Pathways: overview of an application to Breast cancer data in Tuscany (abstract and poster)
  • Emmelien De Roock, Niels Martin and Filip Van Droogenbroeck – What Do Healthcare Professionals Really Want to Know? Discerning the information needs of healthcare professionals at an emergency department (abstract and poster)
  • Ruihua Guo, Lawrence Shen, Adeline Yap and Simon Poon – Evidence-based process discovery for medical informatics research and translation: A systematic consideration towards quality of evidence (abstract and poster)
  • Konstantin Georgiev, Jacques Fleuriot, Joanne McPeake, Susan Shenkin and Atul Anand – Exploring Rehabilitation Care Pathways from Electronic Health Records of Patients with COVID-19 (abstract and poster)
  • Floor Rademaker, Rob Bemthuis, Jeewanie Jayasinghe Arachchige and Faiza Bukhsh – Process Mining for Sepsis Care Path Analysis – A Subpopulation Case Study (abstract and poster)

19.00 – 22.00: WELCOME RECEPTION

Organizing Committee

  • Niels Martin, Hasselt University (Belgium)
  • Carlos Fernandez-Llatas, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (Spain)
  • Owen Johnson, University of Leeds (United Kingdom)
  • Marcos Sepúlveda, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile)
  • Jorge Munoz-Gama, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile)

The workshop is an initiative of the Process-Oriented Data Science for Healthcare Alliance. The goal of this international alliance is to promote the research, development, education and understanding of process-oriented data science in healthcare. For more information about the activities and its members visit  pods4h.com/alliance. PODS4H Alliance is the chapter within the  IEEE Task Force on Process Mining to promote the use of Process Mining in Healthcare.

Program Committee

  • Davide Aloini, University of Pisa
  • Robert Andrews, Queensland University of Technology
  • Iris Beerepoot, Utrecht University
  • Elisabetta Benevento, University of Pisa
  • Andrea Burattin, Technical University of Denmark
  • Dr. Daniel Capurro, University of Melbourne
  • Marco Comuzzi, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
  • Jonas Cremerius, HPI – University of Potsdam
  • Benjamin Dalmas, Computer Research Institute of Montreal
  • Dr. René de la Fuente, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Onur Dogan, Izmir University Bakircay
  • Carlos Fernandez-Llatas, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia
  • Roberto Gatta, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
  • Joscha Grüger, Universität Trier
  • Emmanuel Helm, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
  • Owen Johnson, University of Leeds
  • Felix Mannhardt, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Ronny Mans, Philips Research
  • Niels Martin, Hasselt University
  • Renata Medeiros de Carvalho, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Jorge Munoz-Gama, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Marco Pegoraro, RWTH Aachen University
  • Simon Poon, University of Sydney
  • Luise Pufahl, Technical University of Munich
  • Ricardo Quintano, Philips
  • Hajo Reijers, Utrecht University
  • Eric Rojas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Gema Ibañez Sanchez, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia
  • Fernando Seoane, Karolinska Institutet
  • Marcos Sepúlveda, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Minseok Song, Pohang University of Science and Technology
  • Alessandro Stefanini, Università di Pisa
  • Emilio Sulis, Università di Torino
  • Pieter Toussaint, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • Vicente Traver, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia
  • Zoe Valero Ramón, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia
  • Wil van der Aalst, RWTH Aachen University
  • Mathias Weske, HPI – University of Potsdam

Contact

pods4h@haplab.org