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Using Graph Transformations for Formalizing Prescriptions and Monitoring Adherence

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Medication prescriptions are an important class of medical intervention orders. Their complexity ranges widely, depending on the nature of the patient’s condition and the prescribed substance(s). In today’s IT supported clinical environments, prescriptions are often authored electronically. Patient adherence to the prescribed medication regimen is a key determinant for the outcome of the intervention. Recently, an increasing number of information technologies are entering the consumer market with a goal to assist patients with adhering to their prescriptions. The effectiveness (and safety) of these technologies is limited to simplistic cases, however, because of the lack of a precise semantics for more complex prescription orders. To close this gap, we present an approach to formalize the meaning of medication prescriptions based on a graph-transformation system. This allows for more complex and variable prescriptions to be semantically coded and their adherence to be automatically monitored. Our work has been implemented within a prototypical prescribing tool and validated with domain experts.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada

    Jens H. Weber, Simon Diemert & Morgan Price

  2. Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Jens H. Weber & Morgan Price

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    Francesco Parisi-Presicce

  2. Angewandte Informatik 1, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

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Weber, J.H., Diemert, S., Price, M. (2015). Using Graph Transformations for Formalizing Prescriptions and Monitoring Adherence . In: Parisi-Presicce, F., Westfechtel, B. (eds) Graph Transformation. ICGT 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9151. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21145-9_13

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