Mobile Virtual Healthcare Communities: An Approach to Community Engineering for Cancer Patients
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2002-08-01
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Wrycza, Stanislaw
Research Team
iw6-init
Abstract
In this paper we describe mobile virtual healthcare communities as a solution for meeting cancer patients information and interaction needs. After an introduction into the healthcare system and its potential starting points for virtual communities, we focus on cancer patients. We analyse their situation through field studies and identify information and interaction needs. On this basis we derive requirements for user centric socio technical system design for cancer patients. As at present no existing offers meet these prerequisite, we intend to develop and implement a mobile healthcare community for cancer patients. The objective is to introduce a socially accepted, technically stable and economically reasonable system. By the time of the conference we assume to have implemented this community platform.
Language
English
Keywords
Mobile Virtual Healthcare Communities
Community Engineering
Cancer Patients
CCC
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Information systems and the future of the digital economy : proceedings of the Xth European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2002
Publisher place
Gdansk
Start page
1626
End page
1637
Pages
12
Event Title
10th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2002
Event Location
Gdansk, Poland
Event Date
06.-08.06.2002
Official URL
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
219248
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