MOBILE COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTING IN HEALTHCARE:DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING MOBILE VIRTUALCOMMUNITIES FOR CANCER PATIENTS

In this paper we describe mobile virtual healthcare communities as a solution for meeting cancerpatients information and interaction needs1. After an introduction into the healthcare system and itspotential starting points for virtual communities we focus on cancer patients. We analyse theirsituation through field studies and identify information and interaction needs. On this basis we deriverequirements for user centric socio technical system design for cancer patients. Since no existingoffers meet these prerequisites we intend to develop and implement a mobile healthcare community forcancer patients. Three topics are of special interest.[...]

MoreLess

Year of publication:	2002
Authors:	Leimeister, Jan Marco ; Daum, Miriam ; Krcmar, Helmut
Institutions:	Institut für Informatik <München, Technische Universität> / Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik
Subject:	Gesundheitswesen \| public health sector \| Virtuell freie Gruppe \| Mobile Telekommunikation \| Mobile Computing \| mobile computing \| Krebskranker

1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Mobile Virtual Communities
1.2 The German healthcare system
2 RESEARCH DESIGN
3 EMPIRIACAL FINDINGS
3.1 Needs Analysis of Cancer Patients
3.2 Analysis of web-based Information and Interaction Offers for Cancer Patients
4 IMPLICATIONS
4.1 First steps of system design
4.2 Adding Value to Virtual Communities through Mobile Services
5 SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK
REFERENCES

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10005867900