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Patient-generated data (PGD) show great promise for informing the delivery of personalized and patient-centered care. However, patients' data tracking does not automatically lead to data sharing and discussion with clinicians, which can make it ...

The field of personal health informatics has received increasing attention within the CSCW and HCI communities as health tracking becomes more affordable, accessible, and pervasive. Chronic disease management, in particular, presents tremendous potential ...

Health care systems increasingly promote self-management of chronic conditions outside of traditional clinical environments, often through technologies which help to support patient self-care and engagement with medical professionals. We investigate ...

With individual behaviour and lifestyle determining 30-50% of people's health, research and supportive technology for affecting behaviour alteration remain urgently needed. Most existing persuasive systems are designed to persuade a user to change a ...

Normally, a physician is collecting a patient's medical history under time pressure during the initial patient interview. This leads to incomplete, erroneous data with negative effects on treatment and patient safety. The objective of this work is to ...

This workshop paper aims at briefly presenting the authors' previous experience in the field of sociotechnical design of mHealth applications and at illustrating the opportunity in joining forces of multidisciplinary researchers, domain experts, and ...

The wave of digital health is continuously growing and promises to transform the experience of patients, redefining their role as empowered actors of the healthcare processes rather than passive receivers of medical help. Mobile technologies are a ...

The pervasive health field has matured over the last few decades and the community has begun to converge on commonly accepted practices. In this work, we argue for a need to consider the ethical implications of the choices we make as researchers, ...

Having lung cancer is associated with accessibility issues because people afflicted with lung cancer tend to be older and less familiar with technology, and have low education levels and low health literacy. Fear, embarrassment and stigmatization also ...

The empowerment of citizens in relation to personal healthcare management includes consideration of a multi-faceted collection of elements. Simplistic forms of understanding, which link empowerment to access provide limited acknowledgement for the ...

Frameworks offer opportunities for better understanding of the efficacy of patient empowerment. However, some of these frameworks appear to be constituted in different ways by professional body involved in healthcare and research. Through review of ...

This paper presents a new approach to augment web-services to facilitate the creation of user-tailored user interfaces. Our proposal is based on the ISO/IEC 24752-6: 2014 "Universal remote console -- Part 6: Web service integration" standard. This ...

In countries with a national health service, new telemedicine and telehealth products and services are `commissioned' according to a fairly rigorous and regulated process, that usually involves pilot studies and the assembly of `evidence' to show that ...

Objective: the objectives of this article are: (a) to provide an analysis of the key factors of an efficient web strategy with regard to the issue of patient empowerment, (b) to build an index for measuring the degree of empowerment of healthcare ...

In this paper we describe a prototype of a serious game designed to improve hospital patients' confidence in managing their hospital stay. We present findings of an evaluation of our visual novel computer game by comparing it with traditional approaches ...

This paper reports on insights from designing support for patients as participants in their own treatment and care. Informed by the notion of service, the paper illustrates how the new design reconfigures the role of patients to stage a more ...

As digital media are becoming more and more ubiquitous in our environments, it has the potential to capture and mediate situated information expressing the embedded nature of practice. Within healthcare settings, such information is often important for ...

As healthcare enters the age of technology and Internet access, new challenges emerge, particularly with respect to the protection of patient privacy and the protection of highly sensitive and life-critical information. By bringing state-of-the-art ...