Prof. Manfred Reichert is co-chair of the joined 5th Int'l Workshop on Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare (ProHealth'12) and the 4th Int'l Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KR4HC'12). Manfred shares this task with his colleagues Richard Lenz (University of Nurmberg-Erlangen, Germany), Silvia Miksch (TU Vienna, Austria), Mor Peleg (University of Haifa, Israel), David Riaño (URV, Spain), and Annette ten Teije (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands). The ProHealth'12/KR4HC'12 workshop will be held in conjunction with the 10th Int'l Conference on Business Process Management (BPM'12) in Talinn, Estonia in September 2012.

Summary:
ProHealth'12 / KR4HC'12 brings together researchers from two communities facing similar challenges to improve the understanding of domain-specific requirements, theories, methods, and tools. The healthcare community has been focusing on knowledge representation and reasoning to support medical knowledge management and clinical decision-making. The BPM community has been developing  process-oriented information systems in healthcare and been studying ways to adopt BPM technology for healthcare process support. Both communities have been addressing the unique characteristics of healthcare processes and clinical-guideline based decision-support systems, including their high degree of flexibility, the integration with electronic medical records and shared semantics of healthcare domain concepts, and the need for tight cooperation and communication among medical care teams.

More details can be found in the ProHealth'12/KR4HC'12 flyer.