Building Flexible eHealth Processes using Business Rules
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This article describes how business agility in a health insurance company can benefit from more flexible business processes. The suggested architecture for a flexible information system is service-oriented and uses a business rule management system to externalize rules. At the organizational level the business rule approach helps to identify and formalize rules.
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