Paper Info
Title
Coordination of Inter-organisational Healthcare Processes via Specialisation of Internet-Based Object Life Cycles
Abstract
We describe an approach to healthcare coordination using object life cycles (OLCs). By consulting the OLC of a given patient object instance, the legal methods to apply to that object at that time can be identified - acting as a resource for a clinical workstation accessing the Internet-based instance stored by the host of the inter-organisational hospital unformation system (HIS). To support coordination, each activity results in the posting of summary data to the HIS - handled generically as GEHR (Good Electronic Health Record) transaction archetypes. As well as providing predefined care plan templates, OLCs also allow flexibility and individualisation of care plans. Behaviour-consistent specialisation of OLCs permits the definition of valid variant OLCs. We illustrate the proposed concept in the context of a hospital Early Discharge Program (EDP) - currently driven by a hospital-based care coordinator. An HIS that supported the coordination would allow significant expansion of the program.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/HICSS.2002.994116
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
hospital-based care coordinator,object life cycle,behaviour-consistent specialisation,inter-organisational hospital unformation system,internet-based object life cycles,internet-based instance,inter-organisational healthcare processes,care plan,predefined care plan template,patient object instance,healthcare coordination,valid variant olcs,life cycle,health care
Health care,Computer science,Workstation,Knowledge management,Medical record,Database transaction,Hospital information system,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-1435-9
2
0.38
References 
Authors
11
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
S. Barretto120.38
James Warren2539137.68
M. Stumptner36130.30
M. Schrefl42529.25
Gerald Quirchmayr554082.61
S. Nield620.38