title: An ontology-based system for context-aware and configurable services to support home-based continuous care.
abstract: Continuous care models for chronic diseases pose several technology-oriented challenges for home-based care, where assistance services rely on a close collaboration among different stakeholders, such as health operators, patient relatives, and social community members. This paper describes an ontology-based context model and a related context management system providing a configurable and extensible service-oriented framework to ease the development of applications for monitoring and handling patient chronic conditions. The system has been developed in a prototypal version, and integrated with a service platform for supporting operators of home-based care networks in cooperating and sharing patient-related information and coordinating mutual interventions for handling critical and alarm situations. Finally, we discuss experimentation results and possible further research directions.
authors.affiliation: National Interuniversity Consortium for Telecommunications, University of Florence, Florence, Italy. federica.paganelli@unifi.it
authors.forename: Federica
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Paganelli
authors.forename: Dino
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Giuli
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy; D003628:Database Management Systems; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods*; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled