Pathway identification via process mining for patients with multiple conditions

Pathway identification is essential to support patient-centered clinical guideline design for patients with multiple conditions. This research proposes a method based on process mining to sift through a large number of patients´ medical records in order to match patients´ medical profiles with the healthcare services needed in the form of pathways. A heuristics miner algorithm is developed and tested with a case study involving patients with multiple conditions. It is found that process mining can be applied in the healthcare context to identify pathways with correct ordering of healthcare services and process constructs. The mined pathways provide a reference process model for designing healthcare services that are catered to individual patients´ needs.