PMID: 8591244Jan 1, 1995Paper

Modeling the management of protocols as the kernel of a healthcare information system

Medinfo
P GrifoniL D Serbanati

Abstract

A conceptual model of a health care structure is described. The management of protocols viewed as structured, flexible, and coherent descriptions of activities aimed to solve specific problems in the system is the kernel of the model. A global approach to the protocols is proposed. Each protocol is modeled from two points of view: the nature of the actions (clinical, administrative, programming, and control) and the life cycle of protocols (theoretical, customized, and performed). In our approach the patient folder not only records information about the patient, but also contains and controls the execution of the protocols planned to be performed on the patient. As a consequence, all aspects related to protocol execution are chronologically reported in the folder in a federated manner. In this way the patient folder becomes a complex, multifaceted object, able to capture all information needed to evaluate the patient evolution in a given period.

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