TY - GEN
T1 - Towards Delivering Disease Support Processes for Patient Empowerment Using Mobile Virtual Communities
AU - van Beijnum, Bernhard J.F.
AU - Pawar, P.
AU - Elloumi, Lamia
AU - Hermens, Hermanus J.
N1 - 10.1007/978-3-642-29262-0_23
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In existing healthcare systems, the focus is on clinical processes to assess the health condition of patients, making clinical decisions and applying therapeutic procedures all under control of health professionals. However, patients with chronic diseases usually face many disease related problems that are not immediately under control or supervision of a health professional.
Taking patients with chronic cardiovascular diseases as an example, these patients are recommended to make a number of lifestyle changes: increase physical activity, change diet habits, quit smoking and adhere to a medication intake regime. In this paper we propose the use of Mobile Virtual Communities to enhance the empowerment of patients by providing the ICT mediated social support functionalities that assist patients to realize the lifestyle changes needed.
AB - In existing healthcare systems, the focus is on clinical processes to assess the health condition of patients, making clinical decisions and applying therapeutic procedures all under control of health professionals. However, patients with chronic diseases usually face many disease related problems that are not immediately under control or supervision of a health professional.
Taking patients with chronic cardiovascular diseases as an example, these patients are recommended to make a number of lifestyle changes: increase physical activity, change diet habits, quit smoking and adhere to a medication intake regime. In this paper we propose the use of Mobile Virtual Communities to enhance the empowerment of patients by providing the ICT mediated social support functionalities that assist patients to realize the lifestyle changes needed.
KW - METIS-286376
KW - Cardiovascular Diseases
KW - IR-80522
KW - patient empowerment
KW - disease support processes
KW - EWI-21896
KW - Telemedicine
KW - Mobile Virtual Communities
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-29262-0_23
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-29262-0_23
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-3-642-29261-3
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
SP - 158
EP - 161
BT - 4th International Conference on Electronic Healthcare, eHealth 2011
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin, Germany
Y2 - 21 November 2011 through 23 November 2011
ER -