An Integrated Model to Capture the Provision of Health and Social Care Services Based on the ContSys and FHIR Standards

In the last decades, there is a shift in the provision of health services from the formal facilies to home care. The delivery of care at home is considered a sustainable approach that not only results in substanal cost savings but is also a key step towards achieving opmal outcomes in the delivery of high-quality health services. Moreover, the adopon of this approach is facilitated by the prompt development of medical and non-medical technologies that can simplify care coordinaon and enable distant monitoring of the paent. However, home care requires the integraon and coordinaon of health and social stakeholders in a connuity of care perspecve. This requires the adopon of standards to define a common shared conceptual model that improves the interoperability among informaon systems and organizaons. In this paper to accomplish this task we combine the ContSys standard and the HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) framework to idenfy concepts to be exchanged between systems, organizaons and providers involved in the health and social context. This model has been developed to improve the integraon and coordinaon of social and health care services within the Italian H@ H project.