Guarded Process Spaces (GPS): A navigation system towards creation and dynamic change of healthcare processes from the end-user's perspective

Efficient process management becomes more and more crucial for hospitals to survive on a competitive market. Therefore, process management must comply with individual conditions of patients and quickly react to changing requirements and organizational parameters. With Guarded Process Spaces (GPS) we developed a formally based concept that makes it possible to enable end-users to create and flexibly change processes from their point of view. Our approach makes use of existing BPM technology while abstracting from technical interfaces and modeling paradigms. In this way, it provides the basis to gain user acceptance and to achieve technological independence.