Authors:
Bruno S. C. M. Vilar
;
André Santanchè
and
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros
Affiliation:
IC - UNICAMP, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Scientific Workflows, Context-Adaptation, Task-Network Model, Healthcare.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Ontology and the Semantic Web
;
Personalized Web Sites and Services
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
Automated healthcare planning (care-flow) systems are usually designed to afford the dynamicity of health
environments, in which changes occur constantly as a patient’s treatment progresses. This dynamic adaptation
mechanism is based on blocks of activities, triggered and combined according to contextual data, producing a
plan, which emerges from the interaction between these blocks and the context. However, tools that implement
care-flow systems are still incipient, missing support for features like extensibility, collaboration and traceability
of procedures. On the other hand, these features can be found in workflow systems that are widely used in
a variety of environments (in business and scientific domains), with consolidated standards and technologies.
However, workflow systems are not well suited to address the dynamicity of healthcare environments. In this
paper we argue that care-flow and workflow systems have complementary characteristics and we present a
software a
rchitecture that incorporates the emergent and context-driven approach of care-flow systems into
workflow systems. We present a prototypical implementation validating the key concepts of our proposal,
which uses an ontology representation of workflows combined with an ontology and SWRL rules.
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