Applying process mining in health technology assessment

OBJECTIVE: Propose a process mining-based method for Health Technology Assessment. METHODS: Articles dealing with prior studies in Health Technology Assessment using Process Mining were identified. Five research questions were defined to investigate these studies and present important points and desirable characteristics to be addressed in a proposal. The was defined method with five steps and was submitted to a case study for evaluation. RESULTS: The Literature search identified six main characteristics. As a result, the five-step method proposed was applied in the radical prostatectomy surgical procedure between the robot assisted technique and laparoscopy. CONCLUSION: It was demonstrated in this article the creation of the proposal of an efficient method with its replication for other health technologies, coupled with the good interpretation of the specialists in terms of comprehensibility of the discovered patterns and their correlation with clinical protocols and guidelines.