Information and Process in Health

Abstract

Cooperation and partnership in healthy ageing enhances and enriches the underlying information and process models within integrated care. On information, functioning oriented data as part of health and social data describes medical conditions and functioning capacity of the older person. Similarly, the notion of a good practice, as embracing a conglomerate of guidelines, is also well understood but less so in terms of process substance. Process structure granularity is often quite coarse and less formal, comparable to process descriptions annotated with clinical guidelines. This chapter describes an algebraic framework for representation of functioning data typically found in contexts of integrated care processes in healthy ageing.

Key Terms in this Chapter

WHO: World Health Organization.

ICD: International Classification of Diseases.

Quantale: Semigroup that is sup-distributive over a complete lattice.

Semigroup: Associative binary operation.

ICF: International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health.

ICHI: International Classification of Health Interventions.