A Methodological Framework for the Integrated Design of Decision-Intensive Care Pathways-an Application to the Management of COPD Patients.

Healthcare processes are by nature complex, mostly due to their multidisciplinary character that requires continuous coordination between care providers. They encompass both organizational and clinical tasks, the latter ones driven by medical knowledge, which is inherently incomplete and distributed among people having different expertise and roles. Care pathways refer to planning and coordination of care processes related to specific groups of patients in a given setting.

Visually defining and querying consistent multi-granular clinical temporal abstractions.

Objective: The main goal of this work is to propose a framework for the visual specification and query of consistent multi-granular clinical temporal abstractions. We focus on the issue of querying patient clinical information by visually defining and composing temporal abstractions, i.e.

Temporal similarity measures for querying clinical workflows.

Objective: In this paper, we extend a preliminary proposal and discuss in a deeper and more formal way an approach to evaluate temporal similarity between clinical workflow cases (i.e., executions of clinical processes).

Merging multimedia presentations and semistructured temporal data: a graph-based model and its application to clinical information.

Objective: In this paper, we focus on the issue of providing physicians with the capability of representing in a seamless way both temporal aspects of multimedia semistructured data and their temporal presentation requirements.

Background: Semistructured data are data having some structure, that may be irregular or incomplete and does not necessarily conform to a fixed schema. Semistructured data often contain the description of histories of the considered real world.