Empowering and educating patients for 'Behavioral Changes' toward their chronic diseases by 'Highly Interactive Intelligent Systems'

Maintaining positive behaviors in chronic diseases is a challenging area in Medicine. Although clinical treatments are necessary to improve the chronic conditions, medical interventions alone are not sufficient. Chronic diseases need patient centered self management. Therefore transferring customized information and knowledge to patients is crucial in order to empower them for a long term management of the chronic diseases. Interactive and attractive education systems are more effective in improving the ¿Stages of Changes¿ in patients by reinforcing them to challenge new adapted strategies tailored for their unique profile. This research will study the effect of ¿Highly Interactive Intelligent Systems¿ in changing the patients¿ behaviors positively toward their disease and educating them in order to empower the self management process for their disease. Adaptive or intelligent systems will ¿learn¿ from the patient¿s situation based on their medical records and personal profiles and then the system will adapt itself to the new situation and create new strategies to educate the patient in order to reinforce positive behavior on the part of the patient. Therefore a ¿Two way learning¿ module will be implemented as follow: 1. The system will adapt, learn and collect the necessary information from the patient and transfer it to the healthcare provider while translating the acquired knowledge about the patient¿s medical situation to an understandable format. 2. The patients will interact with highly customized intelligent information in order to change their behavioral model toward their disease which ultimately will maintain their positive attitude toward their disease and improve their health status in long term.