TY - GEN
T1 - The use of ICT in the delivery of healthcare services to the Chronic patient
AU - Shani, Mordechai
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Chronic diseases cause a major problem to the modern health care services world wide. Our work describes a new approach to tackle the problem of the chronically ill patients, by using information and communication technology (ICT) for patient's empowerment and managed their care. Our research, which is conducted with close cooperation with the health maintenance organizations and is still continuing, is based on a "bottom-up" approach and is also aimed at changing paradigms, well established in the western healthcare services.
AB - Chronic diseases cause a major problem to the modern health care services world wide. Our work describes a new approach to tackle the problem of the chronically ill patients, by using information and communication technology (ICT) for patient's empowerment and managed their care. Our research, which is conducted with close cooperation with the health maintenance organizations and is still continuing, is based on a "bottom-up" approach and is also aimed at changing paradigms, well established in the western healthcare services.
KW - Chronic disease
KW - Managed care
KW - Patients empowerment
KW - Telemedicine
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/72249103920
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-60750-044-5-17
DO - 10.3233/978-1-60750-044-5-17
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C2 - 19745257
AN - SCOPUS:72249103920
SN - 9781607500445
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 17
EP - 18
BT - Medical Informatics in a United and Healthy Europe - Proceedings of MIE 2009
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 22nd International Conference on Medical Informatics Europe, MIE 2009
Y2 - 30 August 2009 through 2 September 2009
ER -