Ontology Model for Supporting Process Mining on Healthcare-Related Data

Abstract

In the field of Medicine, Process Mining (PM) can be used to analyse healthcare-related data to infer the underlying diagnostic, treatment, and management processes. The PM paradigm provides techniques and tools to obtain information about the processes carried out by analysing the trace of healthcare events in the Electronic Health Records. In PM, workflows are the most frequent formalism used for representing the PM models. Despite the efforts to develop user-friendly tools, the understanding of PM models remains problematic. To improve this situation, we target the representation of PM models using ontologies. In this paper, we present a first version of the Clinical Process Model Ontology (CPMO), aimed at describing the sequential structure and associated metadata of PM models. Finally, we show the application of the CPMO to the domain of prostate cancer.