Tool for End-User Context Definition in Programming Clinical Tasks in a Pervasive Health System

• Alencar Machado UFSM
• Giovani Rubert Librelotto UFSM
• Iara Augustin UFSM

Abstract

This article presents the creation of a model of context in pervasive healthcare systems and offers a diagram of the clinical context. It demonstrates a way to solve the existing problem in context-aware systems to define what is relevant to the pervasive environment. It also offers a tool to support context modeling in a graphical form, allowing the User to tell which contextual elements are important for a given clinical task (pervasive applications that help the clinician to conduct its activities) which will run. The applicability is in the clinical setting, where the tool generates the code context for the tasks performed in clinical ClinicSpace.

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