This profile focuses on the definition of a standardized and shared document structure for the proper management of the clinical process involving chronic patients followed by telemonitoring services. Although this profile has the word “home” in its title, the telemonitoring process considered in this profile allows the patient to be monitored not only from his home but from the place in which he is resident.

The main goal is to allow every participant involved in the process (e.g., specialist, general practitioner, telemonitoring centre’s staff) to manage and share the complete clinical history of the patient, from the monitored data to the events occurring during the process (e.g., visits, changes of therapy). To achieve this, this profile is based on the ITI Cross-enterprise Document Workflow (XDW) Profile that provides a structure to build cross-enterprise workflows, where each event and the related status and documents are tracked and shared between all individuals involved. The XTHM-WD Profile follows the technical specifications contained in the XDW Profile to define the rules needed to create and manage a cross-enterprise workflow related to a telemonitoring process.
