Task Planning (TP) Specification PAUSED

Formal model for executable, team-based clinical workflow. Defines Work Plans, Task Plans, task types, conditional branching, event handling, performer roles, and the complete task lifecycle state machine. Work Plans encode the full workflow for a care episode, decomposed into Task Plans per performer role, with support for parallel execution, event-driven transitions, and dynamic adaptation at runtime. The specification is the primary reference for clinical workflow engine developers and care pathway modelling teams.

Purpose

This specification of the openEHR Task Planning facility addresses requirements in the area of clinical process automation in which some form of granular planning of clinical work is required. The central concept is that of a plan (or set of plans) designed to achieve a goal and that relate to an active subject. Plans generally have related decision logic and require a means of extracting data from back-end systems concerning the subject. These other elements and their relationship to plans are described in the openEHR Process and Planning Overview.

The intended audience includes:

  • Standards bodies producing health informatics standards;

  • Academic groups using openEHR;

  • The open source healthcare community;

  • Solution vendors;

  • Medical informaticians and clinicians interested in health information.

  • Health data managers.

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