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Authors:
Jonas Könning
Carlos Velasco
Yehya Mohamad
Stefan Decker
Oya Beyan
Keywords: information management; Rule-based decision-making system; Polypharmacy; Drug delivery; Drug-drug interactions; Comorbidity
Abstract:
This paper presents an approach to represent medication guidelines in a machine readable form for its use within a production Home Care environment. Part of this work was developed under the scope of the POLYCARE project. The POLYCARE project aims at developing a patient-centred integrated care environment, supported by ICT systems to improve the quality of home hospitalization. Part of the project design is a decision support system for improving the medication of the elderly patients. For this, a machine actionable version of the medication guidelines to be used was needed. However, as none were freely available to the project, we used our own approach. Scope of this work is the design and implementation of such a rule base. Guidelines were selected based on their prominence in the domain and analyzed for their structure to allow for the creation of templates, which can be used in the generation of rules. The templates were designed to work with the Drools business rule management system. While still simple, the current rule base shows good performance and potential for future extensions. Freely available, open business rule management systems proved themselves sufficient for the task
Pages: 15 to 22
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018
Publication date: February 18, 2018
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-3735
ISBN: 978-1-61208-608-8
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Dates: from February 18, 2018 to February 22, 2018