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Timeline-based Clinical Case Manager

Authors:
Cristian Taslitchi
Florica Moldoveanu
Alin Moldoveanu
Alexandru Egner

Keywords: Medical data visualization; clinical pathways; timeline; case management; BPMN

Abstract:
The main purpose for visualizing medical data in Clinical Information Systems (CISs) is to convert the medical data in relevant information about the patient’s health status. The process of conversion from single disparate data into useful information considers as relevant input datasets the known clinical problems and their clinical pathway, the already collected medical data and the social, demographic and administrative data. Visualization of the medical data represents the operational decision support system at point of care. The concept presented in this paper is a potential solution to the existing CISs’ shortcomings, through the extent of the timeline-based social networking experience to medical software, and at the same time, by applying the industry standard of business process modeling, Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0 in encoding the clinical pathways and administrative processes. The primary goal of the Timeline-based Clinical Case Management System (TCCMS) is to give a comprehensive picture of patients’ condition, both real-time as well as historically, using textual and graphic means, and to sustain, in a task-oriented approach and based on advanced decision support algorithms, the application of accurate treatment plans and actions. This paper presents a data visualization concept that hides under a simple temporal relation all the complexity of medical field, into a familiar Graphical User Interface (GUI), promoted by social networks in the last years, finally giving the chance to healthcare IT to become completely paperless.

Pages: 8 to 13

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: August 24, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4553

ISBN: 978-1-61208-359-9

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 24, 2014 to August 28, 2014