DocumentCode
2179602
Title
Towards home healthcare informatics
Author
Bonacina, Stefano ; Marceglia, Sara ; Mazzola, Luca ; Pinciroli, Francesco
Author_Institution
Dipt. di Bioingegneria, Politec. di Milano, Milan
fYear
2009
fDate
21-23 May 2009
Firstpage
156
Lastpage
163
Abstract
The field of information technology and the Internet has developed rapidly in the last few years. The advancements affected eHealth field too, and patient- centered and consumer-centered healthcare systems have become more and more available. However, the patient/consumer interactions with his communication environment remain to investigate. We present our contributions devoted to this research field.
Keywords
Internet; health care; medical information systems; patient care; Internet; consumer-centered healthcare; information technology; patient- centered healthcare; Biomedical informatics; Biomedical monitoring; Cameras; Drugs; History; Information technology; Internet; Laboratories; Medical services; Prototypes; Internet; eHealth; family health record; health literacy; home care; patientcentered care;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Human System Interactions, 2009. HSI '09. 2nd Conference on
Conference_Location
Catania
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-3959-1
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-3960-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HSI.2009.5090972
Filename
5090972
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