Building up a virtual community for home-based chronic diseases healthcare

Author

Yan Hu ; Guohua Bai

Author_Institution

Dept. of Creative Technol., Blekinge Inst. of Technol., Karlskrona, Sweden

fYear

2014

fDate

25-25 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

43

Abstract

With the development of Internet, social networks get more and more popular, it brings us an idea of designing a virtual community for home-based chronic diseases healthcare. In this paper, we conduct a questionnaire to gather the requirements of the community and describe them with user stories. Afterwards, a conceptual prototype is developed based on the requirements. The proposed virtual community involves healthcare providers, healthcare recipients and other people relevant to the home-based healthcare into one platform. It will solve the interoperability problems of current healthcare systems, as well as provide a technical solution of home-based healthcare.

Keywords

Internet; diseases; health care; home computing; open systems; social networking (online); Internet; healthcare providers; healthcare recipients; home-based chronic diseases healthcare; home-based healthcare; interoperability problems; social networks; virtual community; Biomedical monitoring; Communities; Diseases; History; Prototypes; Usability; Virtual community; chronic disease; home-based healthcare; requirements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Usability and Accessibility Focused Requirements Engineering (UsARE), 2014 IEEE 2nd International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Karlskrona

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UsARE.2014.6891000

Filename

6891000