Please consider the following collection of the Process Science journal: https://link.springer.com/collections/fdhehccega

Processes play a crucial role within the context of health and care as they shape how care is delivered, resources are utilized, and outcomes are achieved. Within a health and care context, processes can relate to a wide variety of areas ranging from clinical pathways and patient journeys, over care logistics, to personal health management. New opportunities arising from medical advances, new care models and new technologies stand alongside the mounting challenges of the aging population and tightening budgets for care providers. Against this background, the need to better understand and continuously improve health processes is more critical than ever, i.e. it is pivotal to care for health processes.

This collection welcomes high-quality submissions that advance our understanding of health processes as well as the methods available to design, analyze and improve them. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Extracting, integrating and preparing process-related data in a health context
• Modeling, analyzing and improving health processes in a data-driven way
• Simulating health processes
• Leveraging low-code/no-code solutions within the context of health process improvement
• Augmenting, improving and automating health processes through AI
• Integrating digital health solutions into seamless, interoperable and future-oriented health processes
• Advancing fair, inclusive and privacy-aware health processes
• Understanding the impact of patient-centered and integrated care on health process design and management

Submissions should have a central focus on health processes. Pure case study papers in which existing approaches are applied in a specific health context, without any novel theory, conceptualization or method, are considered out of scope for this collection.

More information at https://link.springer.com/collections/fdhehccega