MOBILE VIRTUAL HEALTHCARE COMMUNITIES:AN APPROACH TO COMMUNITY ENGINEERINGFOR CANCER PATIENTS

In this paper we describe mobile virtual healthcare communities as a solution for meeting cancerpatients information and interaction needs. 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.[...]

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Year of publication:	2002-06-06
Authors:	Leimeister, Jan Marco ; Daum, Miriam ; Krcmar, Helmut
Institutions:	Institut für Informatik <München, Technische Universität> / Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik
Subject:	Betriebswirtschaftslehre \| business economics \| Gesundheitswesen \| public health sector \| Krebskranker \| Mobiles Internet \| Mobile Computing

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1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
1.1 Mobile Virtual Communities
1.2 The healthcare system in Germany
1.3 Oncology patients’ information and interaction demands
2 CHALLENGES FOR VIRTUAL HEALTHCARE COMMUNITITIES
2.1 Scenario: A day in Christina M.’s life in a virtual healthcare community
2.2 Service Models for virtual Healthcare Communities
3 RESEARCH DESIGN
4 PRELIMINARY RESULTS
4.1 Field Studies
4.2 First steps of system design
5 SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK
6 REFERENCES

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