Recently, the Process Science collection “Caring for Health Processes” has opened for submissions. The 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 call for papers can be found on the Process Science website: https://link.springer.com/collections/fdhehccega.

The collection is open for submission until November 30, 2026, but submissions will be handled on a rolling basis.

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.

The editorial team —consisting of Daniel Fürstenau (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany), Niels Martin (Hasselt University, Belgium), Melanie Reuter-Oppermann (Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Germany) and Paulus Torkki (University of Helsinki, Finland)— is looking forward to your submissions.