On Location-Based Services for Patient Empowerment, Guidance and Safety
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چکیده
The importance of patients’ active participation in healthcare delivery and disease management has been highlighted in various studies, especially for chronic patients. Overall, patient empowerment, guidance and safety constitute concrete goals in modern healthcare systems. To this end, mobile computing technologies can enable to realize such services in a pervasive manner, tailored to each patient’s specific needs. The current work elaborates on the utilization of outdoor location information to deliver personalized services to patients, discriminating among reactive and proactive services according to their initiator and nature. In this regard, we present various use cases and relevant applications that have been developed by our group, exploiting this way the virtue and applicability introduced via the adoption of location-based services. The ultimate goal of this work is the development and establishment of an integrated framework for providing location-based healthcare information services targeting patient safety, empowerment and guidance.
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