An ontology-driven approach for the management of home healthcare process
Résumé
In the homecare domain, workflows are in the mainstream for supporting the coordination and monitoring of care processes which involve managing a sequence of care workflow (careflow) activities, transmitting the information required for providing care and supporting the invocation of appropriate human and/or IT resources. However, the design of these careflows for later enactment by a Workflow Management System remains a complex task, heavily dependent on patients’ profiles and accordingly requiring to be distinctly personalised. This paper proposes an ontology-driven design approach for careflows, to facilitate the construction of personalized careflows. Following an approach grounded in Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), our methodology is based on the matching of ontologies between conceptual models of homecare and a semantic representation of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) which is associated with both Actor and Case Profile ontological models.