iCareflow

Computer-Interpretable Guidelines (CIG) are Clinical Guidelines described in a language that can be interpreted by computers.
They are often used to support physicians in a single point in time to design and test guidelines.
The next steps are the application of CIGs to determine Careflows, the personalization of iCareflows and their execution.

from BONACIN Rodrigo, DA SILVEIRA Marcos, PRUSKI Cedric, « From Medical Guidelines to Personalized Careflows: the iCareflow Ontological Framework ». Proceedings of the The 23RD IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2010), IEEE Computer Society, 12-15 Oct., 2010, Perth, Australia

This work focuses on the iCareflow problem. The “i” letter represents the “intelligence” and the “individual” in the way to build up integrated treatment plans.
iCareflows integrate in the decision support systems knowledge from gouvernments, care institutions and physicians without exclude the patient's preferences.
This new approach to build treatment plans are based on an ontological framework which explores how clinical guidelines, policies of the care institution, patient preferences, terminologies and other knowledge sources interact with each other to determine a patient-centric careflow.