A Context-Aware framework for patient Navigation and Engagement (CANE)

Wen Yao, Jerome Rolia, Sujoy Basu, Sharad Singhal, Akhil Kumar

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Abstract

Engaging patients in the management of their health care can improve the quality of their care and enhance their experience while making more efficient use of care provider resources, especially for chronic diseases. However, health care system complexity and the challenge of consumer health literacy hinder greater engagement. In this paper, we propose a Context-Aware patient Navigation and Engagement (CANE) framework to support informed decision making and more efficient use of health care services. We use the BPMN 2.0 workflow language to formalize the description of navigation processes derived from medical guidelines and develop a healthcare network ontology to assist patient understanding of various clinical activities from multiple perspectives (e.g., resource, logistics, financial, and time). A running example of type 2 diabetes management is used to illustrate our CANE framework. Finally, we describe the system architecture of our prototype.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCollaborateCom 2012 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Collaborative Computing
Subtitle of host publicationNetworking, Applications and Worksharing
Pages316-325
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event8th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2012 - Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Duration: Oct 14 2012Oct 17 2012

Publication series

NameCollaborateCom 2012 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Other

Other8th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, CollaborateCom 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh, PA
Period10/14/1210/17/12

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications

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