Patient Centered IT

This is part 5 of the series on the Patient Centered Infrastructure. It documents knowledge management as a part of the Patient Centered Process: Profile(Data) Information Retrieval(Information) Knowledge Management(Knowledge) Education(Skills) Medical Services(Interaction) Summary for TLDRs; Patient knowledge is not only one collateral result from healthcare processes it is an important factor for most results and […]

Caring for patients is caring for information for patients. This is especially true as patients are able to care for themselves to a great extent using the right information. This is a call for a rather profound connection between healthcare and information science. Digital health drives initiatives to a great extent but there are many […]

The intention of this post is to describe problems that we are facing with our current information situation given the COVID-19 pandemic in healthcare and opportunities we have to improve this right now, in the near future and long term. This post aims to indicate some directions to solutions or mentions aspects of solutions. I […]

In the preceding posts of this series we learned about the Patient Centered Infrastructure and all its constituents that ensure a seamless patient journey which always supports a precise picture of the individual health situation, collects all information about possible outcomes and helps to perform the necessary tasks in order to reach the personal health […]

In part one we learned about the requirements and the need to build a Patient Centered Infrastructure. In part two we learned about the Patient Centered Process. This article explains the need for profile information in the Patient Centered Process. Profile Information as explained in the previous article references all the necessary actions to collect […]

In part one we learned about the requirements and the need to build a Patient Centered Infrastructure. The central purpose of this infrastructure is to empower patients to participate in healthcare processes. This participation is based on the individual level of health literacy of each patient. Increasing health literacy and offering participation are the main […]

Very motivating article about the changes to future healthcare systems and how these are related to contributing sciences connected to ICT. My personal analysis would be that ICT powered methods like Patient Centered IT leverages new ways healthcare is defined. Intervention becomes Outcome. However the methods to deliver this new quality are only slowly evolving. […]

This a very interesting post about some facts of the drivers of changing healthcare. The impact of information and communication is measurable. However the measurements are often related to coarse grained concepts like healthcare costs. Information in the role of a therapeutical intervention or in the role of a framework for a changing society needs […]

A systematic review of social media for healthcare documents some very important influences and aspects of these platforms when used for health interactions. However social media is only one necessary development that contributes to let patients particpate in healthcare delivery. The whole development is quite new and people are adapting and adopting so that real […]

This blog is about Patient Centered Information Technology. It assumes that there is a true and realistic benefit for people using information technology for their healthcare compared to those that doesn’t. This may be hard to prove but with more and more people engaging in this and havin the possibility the culture of healthcare is […]