Virtuelle Communities (VC) bieten zeit- und ortsunabhängigenZugang zu Informationen und Austausch mit Menschen in ähnlichen Lebenslagen.Besonders geeignet erscheinen sie daher für Patienten mit chronischen / lebensbedrohendenKrankheiten, da diese über besonders starke Informations- und...

Virtual Communities (VCs) offer ubiquitous access to information and exchange possibilities forpeople in similar situations. This is especially valuable for patients with chronic / life-threatening diseasesas they have strong needs for information and interaction with peers. It is seldom...

Personal health records (PHR) is a technology for managing the information playing field in healthcare. With multiple vendors competing on this relatively new market, an evaluation framework for end-user feature comparison can provide a foundation for system adoption decisions. Also it can serve...

The increasing popularity of open innovation approaches has led to the rise of various open innovation communities on the Internet which might contain several thousand user-generated ideas. However, a company's absorptive capacity is limited regarding such an amount of ideas so that there is a...