Integration of the Cognitive Knowledge of Activity in a Service Oriented Architecture in the Home Care Context

The complex nature of a home care (HC) situation induces all important need for cooperation between the health care professionals. But even if this need is sometimes evocated in reports on HC issues, it is more difficult to get precise knowledge all this cooperative activity, and, consequently, propositions for computerized HC organization and management systems. We, did some researches all this topic area. Previous phases of work let its highlight the actual need for cooperation, and obtain precise information on the HC activity processes and data. lit this paper, we focused oil the integration of this cognitive knowledge on the design of a HC cooperation architecture. Different levels of requirements for the cooperative system are mentioned: coordination, communication of information, delegation of activity, integration of services and personal access to the tasks to perform. A description of the usefulness and use of the cognitive knowledge is proposed, the architecture design. modular, distributed, and able to integrate external services is presented, and the results of a validation lest of the implemented prototype, performed with actual HC professionals in all evaluation laboratory, (ire presented.