title: Managing integrated oncology treatment in virtual networks.
abstract: Interdisciplinary and intersectoral coordinated healthcare management based on Clinical Practice Guidelines is essential to achieve high quality in oncological networks. The objective of our research project is to create a cookbook, which can be used by oncological networks as a template. The cookbook is based on guideline-compliant care processes. To develop these care processes, the three S3-guidelines breast, colon and prostate carcinoma have been formalized. The thus-obtained platform-independent process fragments were transformed into an underlying metamodel, which is based on HL7 and can be used for modeling clinical pathways. Additional, qualitative guided interviews were chosen to capitalize on the experts' (e.g. chief residents, resident specialists) wide knowledge and experience in oncological health care management. One of these use cases (tumor board scheduling) is developed for a healthcare management platform which is linked to a national electronic case record. The projected result of our approach is a cookbook which shows, how the treatment can be controlled by interdisciplinary and intersectoral care processes in an oncological network.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund, Germany.
authors.forename: Verena
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Stanicki
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund, Germany.
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Becker
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund, Germany.
authors.forename: Britta
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Böckmann
mesh_terms: D019091:Critical Pathways / Q000592:standards*; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000592:standards*; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000592:standards*; D005858:Germany; D057208:Health Level Seven / Q000592:standards; D038622:Internationality; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000592:standards*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D014584:User-Computer Interface