Business processes are structured into FHIR PlanDefinitions. This can be used to fully structure and define business business processes like what’s done in BPM+, BPMN, etc. but most commonly the main goal is to keep inventory of the business processes as well as their the dependencies between processes, processes and actors, etc.
The L3 author must ensure there is a PlanDefinition for each Business Process mentioned in the L2.
The data required to be captured for each Business Process is:
Inputs:
L2 Business Processes
Business Process Repository
L2 DAK
Outputs:
Proposed new Business Process definitions as PlanDefinitions (following the SMARTBusinessProces profile).
Narrative page with business processes overview for the scope of the current guideline
For readability, Business Process shall contain BPMN or BPM+ content or a separate diagram
TO DO: Where is this content?
TO DO: Add the rendering of BPMN diagrams to the IG Publisher template
Activities:
Checking for reusable Business Processes
The author can check the existing process repository to see if there is a matching process.
TO DO: Do we want to link processes to models?
Creating a new Business Process
Creating a new business process consists of creating a PlanDefinition resource following the profile BusinessProcess. The data needs are described in the model below: