Workflow in healthcare is an important term for today's physicians. The workflow describes the full process of how the office and patient work with each other. From the moment the patient calls to setup and exam, to the billers working on the claims, this is all inclusive in a true workflow. Office administrators are tasked with improving the workflow and making it more econimical and more time efficient. Workflow in recent years has started to conjurr an additional meaning - how an EMR

Electronic medical record

An electronic medical record is a computerized medical record created in an organization that delivers care, such as a hospital or physician's office...

 operates. See also healthcare procedures.

Workflow management technology (see workflow

Workflow

A workflow consists of a sequence of connected steps. It is a depiction of a sequence of operations, declared as work of a person, a group of persons, an organization of staff, or one or more simple or complex mechanisms. Workflow may be seen as any abstraction of real work...

) is not used in healthcare as often as in other domains. However workflow engines can be very useful to manage processes. Workflow software can be also used as a clinical guideline (see clinical guideline execution engine. guideline execution engine

Guideline execution engine

A Guideline Execution Engine is a computer program which can interpret a clinical guideline represented in a computerized format and perform actions towards the user of an electronic medical record....