Design And Implementation Of A DSL-based Approach To Manage Home Care Plans

In recent years, home care has been a real craze. It refers to health care orsupportive care delivered by health care professionals in patients’ homes, especiallyin the Western societies which are distributed to the aging population. Meanwhile,managing home care plans meets serious challenges. Our project aims to solve theproblem how to manage home care plan.In general, the traditional methods to manage home care plan are documentsin the paper record or BPM (Business Process Modeling) technique. However,home care plans can be viewed as a kind of non-structured business processes whichcannot be managed using standard BPM technology and process modeling in themedical field is in general not an easy task. Hence, we put up with a novel DSL(Domain Specific Language) based approach tailored to express home care plansusing high level and user-oriented abstractions. Considering of reasonableness forspecifying home care plan, the proposed DSL is a graphical language whichprovides basic constructs suitable for home care stakeholders. Throughtransformation from meta-model to rational database, we use vaadin framework toimplement an intelligent tool to simplify the process of making care plan. Finally,we describe and discuss preliminary results regarding formalization of the proposedDSL abstractions using timed automata in order to provide basic services to supportanalysis, verification, enactment and management of home care plans.The project prototype demonstrated promising results of the approach for theend user testing. The results validated the DSL (Domain Specific Language) basedapproach is more suitable and accurate to manage home care plans.