As an undergraduate, Ortega interned at Kaiser Permanente Regional Offices, where her she helped direct the workflow of over 4,000 receptionists in Northern California, with the goal of creating better patient experiences.
Besides a direct quantification, the workflow incorporates only one enzymatic step (ligase step to enable tagging of the miRNAs) instead of three enzymatic steps in the qRT-PCR workflow, thereby substantially reducing the possibility for technical bias.
Thus the original workflow metaphor, which directs the design of process support from a mass production point of view, is questioned and replaced by a more suitable concept, which considers social and quality aspects in service delivery.
The direct workflow simulation approach proposed in this paper, which we call the mediator approach, is free of these shortcomings.
We conducted semi-structured interviews with both IM third-year residents and attending physicians and performed direct observation of the workflows in the IM Department.
As the workflow run is being executed, WINGS directs users to a user interface where the run can be monitored and, when needed, reports from code execution failures are displayed to aid in debugging workflows and the underlying code.
The workflow will facilitate metabolic engineering and directed evolution studies and will be useful in studies of cyanobacteria biochemistry and physiology.
Since these measures will affect and direct provider workflow, the chosen measures must be clinically significant.
The new DASH workflow isolates records within the workflow for each particular group, with tags that help direct a record to a particular cohort to resolve or move forward.
A workflow is usually modelled using a directed acyclic graph (DAG) where each node in the graph represents a task in the workflow and the edges of the graph represent the precedence relationships among the tasks.
The workflow includes experimental design, sample preparation, single-cell collection, direct lysis, reverse transcription, preamplification, qPCR and data analysis.
