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Scientific Objectives (Integrating information)
5. The project will define a solution for Electronic Health Record (EHR) incorporating lessons learned in past experiences (e.g. I4C/TripleC, PROREC and Provenance projects), and exploiting the knowledge of the consortium about standards within this field. The defined EHR will be implemented and used to store information about HC. This EHR will integrate different data types (e.g. text, numerical values, multimedia parts) and documents coming from different sources (e.g. hospital services, laboratories, consultations, specialists, relatives and patients at home).
6. Within the project, the cooperating healthcare partners will pre-process information about physicians, patients, citizens and other agents involved in the K4CARE model and will fill in the EHR with it in order to have a test bench with real data. The EHR will integrate information coming from different EU member countries (homogenising the differences) and will be under continuous evaluation and adaptation deriving from the specialised partners indications.
Scientific Objectives (Knowledge representation)
7. Define the Actor Profile Ontologies (APO) for representing the profiles of the subjects involved in the K4CARE model: healthcare professionals, patients and relatives, citizens, and social organisms.
APOs contain the skills, concerns, aspirations, etc. of the people that they represent, together with the healthcare services that those people offer to or receive from the K4CARE model (e.g. medical services such as drug prescription, clinical consultations, laboratory analysis; social services such as counselling, information , advice, social support).
8. Define the patient-Case Profile Ontologies (CPO) for representing symptoms, diseases, syndromes, case mix. APOs and CPOs describe "know-what" knowledge about agents accessing the K4CARE model, and "pure" pathologies the K4CARE model gives support to, respectively. These ontologies are based on terms related to symptoms, signs, drugs, medical and surgical procedures, dietetic conditions, physical and hygienic requirements, cognitive functions, self-dependency, etc.
9. Define Formal Intervention Plans (FIP) for a number of disease and syndrome treatments. These FIPs will be generated from the information deriving from the available evidence-based clinical practice guidelines that represent standards of practice, particularly in the fields of geriatrics. These FIPs represent the professional worldwide existing "know-how" knowledge within the K4CARE platform, and they will guide the services the system offers to the professional users. In other words, FIPs are the explicit expressions of how HC must be provided in a growing ageing EU.
