Paper Info
Title
Designing an Architecture for Monitoring Patients at Home: Ontologies and Web Services for Clinical and Technical Management Integration
Abstract
This paper presents the design and implementation of an architecture based on the combination of ontologies, rules, web services, and the autonomic computing paradigm to manage data in home-based telemonitoring scenarios. The architecture includes two layers: 1) a conceptual layer and 2) a data and communication layer. On the one hand, the conceptual layer based on ontologies is proposed to unify the management procedure and integrate incoming data from all the sources involved in the telemonitoring process. On the other hand, the data and communication layer based on REST web service (WS) technologies is proposed to provide practical backup to the use of the ontology, to provide a real implementation of the tasks it describes and thus to provide a means of exchanging data (support communication tasks). A case study regarding chronic obstructive pulmonary disease data management is presented in order to evaluate the efficiency of the architecture. This proposed ontology-based solution defines a flexible and scalable architecture in order to address main challenges presented in home-based telemonitoring scenarios and thus provide a means to integrate, unify, and transfer data supporting both clinical and technical management tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/JBHI.2013.2283268
Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Journal of
Keywords
Field
DocType
Web services,data integration,diseases,fault tolerant computing,health care,medical computing,medical information systems,ontologies (artificial intelligence),patient care,patient monitoring,telemedicine,REST Web service,autonomic computing paradigm,chronic obstructive pulmonary disease data management,clinical management integration,conceptual layer,data and communication layer,data integration,data transfer,data unification,home-based telemonitoring scenarios,ontologies,patient monitoring,representational state transfer,technical management integration,Home-based telemonitoring scenarios,management,ontologies,representational state transfer (REST),web services
Data integration,Data architecture,Autonomic computing,Computer science,Technical management,Knowledge management,Artificial intelligence,Backup,Ontology (information science),Computer vision,Software engineering,Web service,Data management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
3
2168-2194
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.69
19
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nelia Lasierra1120.69
Alvaro Alesanco212713.33
José García325045.30