Data Requirements for Process Learning

The Learning Process Model (Lpm)

Let us consider a clinical process; while diagnosing a patient, the clinical expert needs to consider the available data about the patient, including his current state, medical history, and any inputs that may be important for making decisions throughout the clinical process, including diagnosis and treatment.

The data required for the clinical expert to accomplish this task is provided in two different time periods: (a) initially available data from the patient records and from the initial examination of the patient; (b) data generated by external events during process execution, such as sudden changes in the state of the patient. External events, which are out of the clinical team’s control, may provide additional inputs, which may require some change to the patient treatment decided up to that moment. Together, the initial inputs and the external events data determine the overall path to be adopted and constitute what we call the process context.