An Ontology-Based Approach to Adaptive Home Careflows

In the healthcare domain, a profusion of workflows are utilised and lots of implicit knowledge is used by domain experts in their daily activities. Ontologies can facilitate the personalized construction of care workflows (care flows) and guide their management in contingency cases, thus allowing them to deviate from their standard prescribed static definition. In this paper we propose a formalization of workflow to automatically adapt the process of homecare for elderly people. We use an ontology of Business Process Modeling Notations(BPMN) associated with both Actor and Case Profile Ontologies to dynamically build flexible care flows capable of guiding the continuity of care.