Management of personal health information sharing for long term care services

Long term care is a service-oriented business process that service providers in the business are loosely-coupled for offering care services at different stages of chronic patients or aged citizens. Sharing Personal Health Information among those providers need to integrate perspectives not only from business process management perspective but also from technical implementation. This study takes a service-oriented approach to implement a Personal Health Information sharing mechanism that aims to support a follow-up care plan creation operation in a community health service center. The implementation integrates distributed Personal Health Information toward a common business goal that can advance our knowledge for managing service-oriented business process and accumulate experiences for healthcare service innovations.