Are we ready for conformance checking in healthcare? Measuring adherence to clinical guidelines: A scoping systematic literature review

•Process mining includes a series of tools that allows the analysis of healthcare activities from the process perspective.•Conformance checking compares observed versus recommended processes and could be used to measure adherence to guidelines.•Studies assess adherence to guidelines using few, simple activities; guidelines usually contain tens of recommendations.•Computable guidelines and structured data should facilitate closing the current gap for clinical conformance checking.