Empowering Patients: PD in the Healthcare Field

Authors

  • Finn Kensing
  • Dixie Louise Strand
  • J?rgen Bansler
  • Erling Havn

Keywords:

Health care, health care information systems, patient empowerment, participatory design, information and communication technology, computer-mediated communication, CSCW

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss PD issues and concerns in the context of a national initiative the purpose of which is to provide IT support for the communication and collaboration within a heterogeneous network of patients/citizens and health care professionals. We present the notion of patient empowerment as focus of ongoing research in the research program Health Care IT along with three empirical case studies under way. We conclude by highlighting the context-specific challenges development of new IT services in the health care sector poses and relate these challenges to existing PD concepts and approaches.

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Published

2004-01-01

Issue

Section

Short Papers - Session 4: Healthcare