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The PATMAN project aimed at promoting effective and efficient health-care delivery by providing integrated support for tackling medical and organisational issues during patient management. A major objective of this project was to demonstrate that health care organisations could benefit from the application of workflow management techniques, as many industrial and commercial organisations did.

The project consisted of the following steps:

• Empirical evaluation of these tools in one or more health-care centres.
• Development of a representation formalism for clinical guidelines and protocols.
• Development of a set of tools supporting the deployment of medical guidelines and protocols in the context of specific work practices in health-care settings.

The PatMan Discussion Forum supported debate centred on a specific medical guideline and provided access to a semantic query-answering engine.