Patient 2.0 Empowerment: Information Dissemination And Awareness
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Abstract
In 2008 we defined Patient 2.0 Empowerment as: “the active participation of the citizen in his or her health and care pathway with the interactive use of Information and Communication Technologies†and health 2.0 as: “Health 2.0 defines the combination of health data and health information with (patient) experience through the use of ICT, enabling the citizen to become an active and responsible partner in his/her own health and care pathway.â€
Elementary to achieve real patient empowerment in the health 2.0 context is the dissemination of information on every aspect involved in the health and care path of the (potential) patient.
This should also include information on the use of new technologies to enable active participation as a way to achieve a form of self-management and self-care. This will have a direct impact on actual and upcoming problems concerning the ageing population, chronic diseases and medical and care understaffing as it will influence both patient (living) independence and professional workload.
However, to achieve this dissemination we will have to consider elements like literacy, trustworthiness of information sources and channels of dissemination.
It is to be expected that as a consequence of this empowerment approach both the role of the patient and the role of the caregiver will change.
Knowing that these paradigm shifts will also have a great and very possibly positive effect on the economic aspects of care and cure (through the use of e.g. EHRs, prescribed information, telemedicine, mhealth) we will have to ask ourselves how we will raise awareness at both patient and provider level about these upcoming changes.
This article deals with these elements based on the concept as laid down by ICMCC in the principle of compunetics, the social, societal and ethical aspects of the use of computing and networking in medicine and care.
Elementary to achieve real patient empowerment in the health 2.0 context is the dissemination of information on every aspect involved in the health and care path of the (potential) patient.
This should also include information on the use of new technologies to enable active participation as a way to achieve a form of self-management and self-care. This will have a direct impact on actual and upcoming problems concerning the ageing population, chronic diseases and medical and care understaffing as it will influence both patient (living) independence and professional workload.
However, to achieve this dissemination we will have to consider elements like literacy, trustworthiness of information sources and channels of dissemination.
It is to be expected that as a consequence of this empowerment approach both the role of the patient and the role of the caregiver will change.
Knowing that these paradigm shifts will also have a great and very possibly positive effect on the economic aspects of care and cure (through the use of e.g. EHRs, prescribed information, telemedicine, mhealth) we will have to ask ourselves how we will raise awareness at both patient and provider level about these upcoming changes.
This article deals with these elements based on the concept as laid down by ICMCC in the principle of compunetics, the social, societal and ethical aspects of the use of computing and networking in medicine and care.
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