Developing New Medical Information Systems

Copenhagen.
The next speaker at COST298 is Kresten Bjerg, who points us to problems in the health system. How can daily diaries created using the Phenomenalog software be used to track personal health information, for example? What role does telemedical monitoring play? How can they be connected?

This requires a consideration of how such interfaces model the doctor/patient interface, and how and whether personal information entered by the patient is transmitted to third parties. This is largely also a problem of psychology (in patients and their caretakers), and of developing such systems with patient needs and abilities in mind, rather than based purely on medical practitioners' needs or on technological possibilities.

What Kresten has in mind here is the development of the concept of the patient's own virtual body, represented through such technologies; patients can use such virtual bodies as a means of tracking their personal health, and use them as a basis for communication with their doctors and carers.

Technorati : COST298, health, information systems, medicine
Del.icio.us : COST298, health, information systems, medicine