Title :
Social networking healthcare
Author :
Griffin, Leigh ; De Leastar, Eamonn
Abstract :
The world of “Social Networking”, a cultural phenomenon of recent years, has evolved an application paradigm, Instant Messaging (IM), into a feature rich, highly interactive and context sensitive service delivery environment. Terms such as buddy lists, presence and IM-bots have emerged as building blocks for services that significantly enhance the user experience. Mapping this paradigm to healthcare can deliver a highly innovative communication platform for information sharing, monitoring and care plan execution. Buddy lists become care groups, presence becomes patient context (e.g. blood sugar level) and IM-bots become E-healthcare services, capable of delivering appropriate contextual information to care groups. This paper outlines the benefit of such a crossover and proposes a component based architecture to meet the ever evolving health care needs of society.
Keywords :
health care; social networking (online); E-healthcare services; IM-bots; context sensitive service; contextual information; innovative communication platform; instant messaging; social networking healthcare; Biomedical monitoring; Context; Facebook; Instant messaging; Medical services; Privacy;
Conference_Titel :
Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health (pHealth), 2009 6th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
0slo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5252-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5253-8
DOI :
10.1109/PHEALTH.2009.5754825