MedPath: A process-based modeling language for designing care pathways

•Doctors can benefit from simple DSLs that are less verbose and closer to the sketches they make manually when modeling care pathways.•Specifying the types of activities in a medical action flow improve organization and disposition of medical activities as a process-based flow.•Model-Based Engineering can fully translate the concepts of care pathways into a programmable artifact (a Domain Specific Language).•MedPath is currently employed in both hospital and clinical care, having practical use one of its validation metrics.