Abstract
By involving patients in their own long-term care, patient self-management approaches aim to increase self-sufficiency and reduce healthcare costs. For example, electronic patient diaries enable patients to collect health data autonomously, increasing self-reliance and reducing strain on health professionals. By deploying patient diaries on mobile platforms, health data collection can occur at any time and place, increasing the mobility of chronic patients who typically need to enter health data frequently. Importantly, an opportunity also arises for mobile clinical decision support, where health feedback is directly issued to patients without relying on connectivity or remote servers. Regardless of the specific self-management strategy, patient and healthcare provider adoption are crucial. Tailoring the system towards the particular patient and toward institution-specific clinical pathways is essential to increasing acceptance. In this paper we discuss a mobile patient diary realizing both the opportunities and challenges of mobile deployment.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | MEDINFO 2015 |
Subtitle of host publication | eHealth-Enabled Health - Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics |
Editors | Andrew Georgiou, Indra Neil Sarkar, Paulo Mazzoncini de Azevedo Marques |
Publisher | IOS Press |
Pages | 118-122 |
Number of pages | 5 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781614995630 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Event | 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, MEDINFO 2015 - Sao Paulo, Brazil Duration: Aug 19 2015 → Aug 23 2015 |
Publication series
Name | Studies in Health Technology and Informatics |
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Volume | 216 |
ISSN (Print) | 0926-9630 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1879-8365 |
Conference
Conference | 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, MEDINFO 2015 |
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Country/Territory | Brazil |
City | Sao Paulo |
Period | 8/19/15 → 8/23/15 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 IMIA and IOS Press.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Biomedical Engineering
- Health Informatics
- Health Information Management