Title :
Bridging gaps between three-generation families´ Needs and Attitudes towards e-health technologies
Author :
Tan, Oguz ; Ng, Jason ; Wong, Alexander ; Wei Kiat Koh
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Infocomm Res. (I2R), Agency for Sci., Technol. & Res. (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
Adopting e-health technologies may be one of the ways to ease the burden of hospitals, where nurses and doctors may be deployed more efficiently to ensure better patient-centered care. The adoption of e-health not only depends on the government, industry players and the current state of technology. Part of the successful adoption also relies on the users´ need for it and their attitude towards using e-health in their daily routine. In this paper, we will share the qualitative research findings of 30 participants (10 families). The findings are based on in-depth interviews in users´ homes. With these, the Human Factors team hopes to bridge the gaps between three-generation families´ (youth, adult, elderly) needs and attitudes towards e-health technologies. This is in view of having designers, researchers and engineers to develop e-health technologies that would be used and adopted by users (three-generation families) in their daily routine.
Keywords :
health care; human factors; patient care; e-health technologies; human factors; patient-centered care; three-generation families; Biomedical monitoring; Internet; Interviews; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Senior citizens; Attitudes; Needs; e-health; three-generation families;
Conference_Titel :
e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2039-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2038-3
DOI :
10.1109/HealthCom.2012.6379479