title: The OCareCloudS project: Toward organizing care through trusted cloud services.
abstract: The increasing elderly population and the shift from acute to chronic illness makes it difficult to care for people in hospitals and rest homes. Moreover, elderly people, if given a choice, want to stay at home as long as possible. In this article, the methodologies to develop a cloud-based semantic system, offering valuable information and knowledge-based services, are presented. The information and services are related to the different personal living hemispheres of the patient, namely the daily care-related needs, the social needs and the daily life assistance. Ontologies are used to facilitate the integration, analysis, aggregation and efficient use of all the available data in the cloud. By using an interdisciplinary research approach, where user researchers, (ontology) engineers, researchers and domain stakeholders are at the forefront, a platform can be developed of great added value for the patients that want to grow old in their own home and for their caregivers.
authors.affiliation: a Information Technology Department (INTEC) , Ghent University-iMinds , Ghent , Belgium .
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authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: De Backere
authors.affiliation: a Information Technology Department (INTEC) , Ghent University-iMinds , Ghent , Belgium .
authors.forename: Femke
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authors.lastname: Ongenae
authors.affiliation: a Information Technology Department (INTEC) , Ghent University-iMinds , Ghent , Belgium .
authors.forename: Frederic
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authors.lastname: Vannieuwenborg
authors.affiliation: a Information Technology Department (INTEC) , Ghent University-iMinds , Ghent , Belgium .
authors.forename: Jan
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authors.affiliation: b Research Centre for Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication (SMIT), Brussels University (VUB)-iMinds , Brussels , Belgium .
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authors.lastname: Duysburgh
authors.affiliation: c Centre for User Experience Research (CUO), KU Leuven-iMinds , Leuven , Belgium .
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authors.affiliation: a Information Technology Department (INTEC) , Ghent University-iMinds , Ghent , Belgium .
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authors.affiliation: d Distrinet Research Group, KU Leuven-iMinds , Heverlee , Belgium , and.
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authors.affiliation: a Information Technology Department (INTEC) , Ghent University-iMinds , Ghent , Belgium .
authors.forename: Jen
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authors.lastname: Rossey
authors.affiliation: a Information Technology Department (INTEC) , Ghent University-iMinds , Ghent , Belgium .
authors.forename: Floris
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Van den Abeele
authors.affiliation: b Research Centre for Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication (SMIT), Brussels University (VUB)-iMinds , Brussels , Belgium .
authors.forename: Karen
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authors.lastname: Willems
authors.affiliation: b Research Centre for Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication (SMIT), Brussels University (VUB)-iMinds , Brussels , Belgium .
authors.forename: Jasmien
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authors.lastname: Decancq
authors.affiliation: c Centre for User Experience Research (CUO), KU Leuven-iMinds , Leuven , Belgium .
authors.forename: Jan Henk
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authors.lastname: Annema
authors.affiliation: c Centre for User Experience Research (CUO), KU Leuven-iMinds , Leuven , Belgium .
authors.forename: Nicky
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authors.lastname: Sulmon
authors.affiliation: d Distrinet Research Group, KU Leuven-iMinds , Heverlee , Belgium , and.
authors.forename: Dimitri
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Van Landuyt
authors.affiliation: a Information Technology Department (INTEC) , Ghent University-iMinds , Ghent , Belgium .
authors.forename: Stijn
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Verstichel
authors.affiliation: e Televic Healthcare NV , Izegem , Belgium.
authors.forename: Pieter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Crombez
authors.affiliation: a Information Technology Department (INTEC) , Ghent University-iMinds , Ghent , Belgium .
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ackaert
authors.affiliation: c Centre for User Experience Research (CUO), KU Leuven-iMinds , Leuven , Belgium .
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: De Grooff
authors.affiliation: b Research Centre for Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication (SMIT), Brussels University (VUB)-iMinds , Brussels , Belgium .
authors.forename: An
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jacobs
authors.affiliation: a Information Technology Department (INTEC) , Ghent University-iMinds , Ghent , Belgium .
authors.forename: Filip
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authors.lastname: De Turck
mesh_terms: D000067917:Cloud Computing; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D012660:Semantics; D035502:Trust; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled
keywords: Cloud; eCare; interdisciplinary; ontologies; trust