Ongenae Femke, Vanhove Thomas, De Backere Femke, De Turck Filip
a Information Technology Department (INTEC) , Ghent University - iMinds , Ghent , Belgium.
Inform Health Soc Care. 2017 Mar;42(2):122-134. doi: 10.3109/17538157.2015.1113178. Epub 2016 Feb 18.
The medical staff in a hospital could benefit from a specialized task management system, considering their high workload covering different patients. This article presents an intelligent task management platform that automatically prioritizes and (re-)assigns tasks to the appropriate caregivers based on the current health care context captured in a continuous care ontology. Moreover, this platform provides the caregivers with a smartphone allowing them to easily view and process their assigned tasks.
