Learning and optimizing care protocols

A system for learning and/or optimizing clinical protocols and/or clinical guidelines, comprising:

• a data collection engine that receives workflow data for a plurality of patients, wherein the workflow data includes a plurality of care steps and relations there between for each of the patients;
• a data analysis engine that:
• identifies one or more sequences of care steps from the workflow data, the identification includes determining one or more most common sequences of care steps from the workflow data, wherein the identified sequences of care steps include the most common sequences of care steps;
• select one or more of the identified sequences of care steps;
• and,
• integrate the selected sequence of care steps into an established clinical protocol and/or employ the selected sequence of care steps as a clinical protocol and/or to provide feedback to expert bodies that generate clinical guidelines.