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CyMED: a Plateform for Supporting Collaboration and Coordination of Home Care Teams using a Process Oriented Approach

Authors:
Awatef Hicheur Cairns
Nathalie Dos Reis
Andrew Cairns
Christophe Lefrère
Gilles Leloup
Antonio Caicao
Jean luc Strauss

Keywords: HomeCare; Coordination; Flexible Workflow; Declarative Workflows; Healthcare social network

Abstract:
Recently, more and more patients are treated in their homes by multiple health and social care actors, from different organizations, public or private, characterized by their mobility and their schedule variability. In this paper, we investigate the difficulties inherent in home care collaboration related to communication, process orchestration and planning. To handle these kinds of difficulties, we present our coordination platform called Cyber Management of Elderly and the Disabled (CyMED), whose ambition is to use a mix of cooperation and process oriented tools, in order to facilitate the cooperative work of health and social care actors. With this approach, we aim to highlight the importance of organizational aspects in the context of homecare

Pages: 234 to 239

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: February 22, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-384-1

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from February 22, 2015 to February 27, 2015