An Overview of Tools for an Integrated and
Adaptive Healthcare Approach
Felix Michel
Department of Informatics
Software Engineering for
Business Information Systems
Technische Universit¨ at M¨ unchen
85748 Garching b. M¨ unchen, Germany
felix.michel@tum.de
Adrian Hernandez-Mendez
Department of Informatics
Software Engineering for
Business Information Systems
Technische Universit¨ at M¨ unchen
85748 Garching b. M¨ unchen, Germany
adrian.hernandez@tum.de
Florian Matthes
Department of Informatics
Software Engineering for
Business Information Systems
Technische Universit¨ at M¨ unchen
85748 Garching b. M¨ unchen, Germany
matthes@tum.de
Abstract—Integrated care approaches are becoming increas-
ingly relevant with the current aging population. In the context of
an integrated healthcare project, we developed a smart adaptive
case management system for professionals that is currently being
used for clinical trials. In this paper, we present the modeling
requirements for integrated healthcare applications and use them
to categorize and compare existing implementation approaches
used in practice.
Index Terms—Modeling, Adaptive Case Management, ACM,
Healthcare
I. I NTRODUCTION
The demographic change in Europe is leading to a signifi-
cantly aging population. The number of aged chronic patients
increases. The objective of the Personalized Connected Care
for Complex Chronic Patients (CONNECARE) project is to
provide an integrated patient-centered health-care approach
[1]. This research project focuses on medical aspects, informa-
tion and communications technology evaluated within clinical
trials at four hospitals across Europe. Conceptually, the pro-
totypical system contains Smart Adaptive Case Management
(SACM), which is used by clinical professionals, and the Self-
management System (SMS), which provides patient-centered
mobile applications that provide instructions prescribed by
the clinical professionals. In the following, we are focusing
on aspects of SACM. In [2], we present a holistic model-
based adaptive case management approach for healthcare that
focuses on challenges of integrated care approaches, iteratively
derived requirements, conceptual features of user interfaces
and related conceptual model elements. In [3], we present a
practice-proven reference architecture for model-based collab-
orative information systems that is used as a core modeling
engine to provide Adaptive Case Management (ACM) support.
This paper presents an overview of tools based on our
derived requirements from [2]. A summary of the high-level
requirements is provided in Section II, a sample use case from
the clinical trials is described in Section III, and the existing
tools are categorized, summarized and compared according
their related requirements in Section IV.
This work has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC)
under the EuropeanUnions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
(grant agreement n 689802).
II. REQUIREMENTS
We iteratively collected and adapted the high-level SACM
requirements for each hospital. The high diversity across
the different sites lead to several agile iterations. The initial
requirements presented in [2] as follows:
R1 Support a model-based full stack approach To
cope with the high diversity across treatments and
hospital sites, a fully model based approach should
be used, and the treatment or site-specific adap-
tations should be applied within the related meta-
model including different clinical questionnaires or
languages.
R1.1 Support data schema models Data that are generated
during the execution of the process models need to
be modeled. In addition, they are needed to model
data that will be integrated from third-party systems,
e.g., patient data from hospital information systems.
R1.2 Support adaptive process models The system needs
and support to define adaptive treatment plans that
are customized to the specific needs of the hospital
and treatment. As a reference methodology for
defining the processes, Adaptive Case Management
(ACM) should be used. To support integrated care,
these processes need to be synchronized with other
subsystems.
R1.3 Support role-based access right models The system
needs to support granular role-based access control
mechanisms to define which clinicians are allowed
to access which patient data. In addition, clinical
tasks need to be assigned based on roles.
R1.4 Support simple user interface models In general, the
user interface needs to represent each model ele-
ment in a generic model-based manner. To support
clinical use cases, special representations need to
be generated that can also be reused as a model
elements.
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