Process mining challenges in hospital information systems

Over the last years hospital information systems became more integrated. Hospital information systems with the wide variety of systems are highly suitable to use process mining for knowledge discovery and optimization of processes. Applying process mining in hospital information systems is a modern and recommendable approach in health care. But process mining techniques can only provide a high result quality if the structure of data is known and if the structure of the event logs are maintained appropriately. This paper describes process mining, hospital information systems and shows where the challenges are if the two areas are combined.