DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC PATIENTS

This report summarizes a part of the activities carried out within the EU FP7-IP-Project CHRONIOUS, An Open, Ubiquitous and Adaptive Chronic Disease Management Platform for COPD and Renal Insufficiency (GA 216461), more precisely within Work Package 6. One of the key components of the platform is the CHRONIOUS Guidelines Framework. It is aimed at offering all the Decision Support services for professionals involved in the Chronic Disease Monitoring and Management Process. This module contains all the decision support functionalities needed for providing the possible diagnoses and treatments according to the medical category of the patient and the patient’s specific data available. This report addresses the work done on modelling the guidelines for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)