Authors:
Lars Rölker-Denker
and
Andreas Hein
Affiliation:
University of Oldenburg, Germany
Keyword(s):
Information Model, Geriatric Care, Knowledge Processes, Organisational Learning.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
The authors propose an abstract information for geriatric care, the geriatric information model (GIM). They
adopt an information model from cancer care and introduce characteristics for geriatric care (patient population,
multidisciplinary and multi-professional approach, cross-sectoral approach). Actors (patients, physicians,
therapists, organisations), information objects, and information relations are defined. The GIM is validated by
mapping four typical knowledge processes (multi-professional geriatric team session, interdisciplinary clinical
case conferences, tumor boards, transition management) onto the model. The GIM is stated as useful for
understanding information flows and relations in geriatric care. All processes for validation can be mapped
onto GIM. In future work the GIM should be tested with more knowledge process and could also be used for
identifying gaps in the IT support of geriatric care. A study on high and low information quality in geriatric
care is also propo
sed.
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