McCullagh, PJ and Patton, WP (2004) eHealth: Tackling the demand for citizen information on the Internet. In: 9th Annual Conference of the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland, Dublin. HISI. 1 pp. [Conference contribution]
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Abstract- Information resources are an important part of e-Health and websites that provide customised and local information help tackle the needs of patients and informal carers. In today’s climate of information-acquisitive patients , the Internet provides a pervasive way to present facts about diseases and conditions, and advice for those who need it. At the Ulster Institute of eHealth, information websites have been designed and developed that provide appropriate information that is suitable for patients, carers and to an extent, healthcare professionals. Our initial requirements were for: • Promotion of breastfeeding of newborn babies under the guidelines of the Baby Friendly initiative; • Information, risk factors and treatments appropriate to stroke victims; • Information for the self-management of chronic pain and explanation of procedures used at the hospital pain clinic. The presentation illustrates how these web sites were designed in the context of exemplar patient sites, clinical feedback and guidelines provided by the Health on the Net foundation.
|Item Type:||Conference contribution (Paper)|
|Faculties and Schools:||Faculty of Computing & Engineering|
Faculty of Computing & Engineering > School of Computing and Mathematics
|Research Institutes and Groups:||Computer Science Research Institute|
Computer Science Research Institute > Smart Environments
|Deposited By:||Dr Paul McCullagh|
|Deposited On:||12 Apr 2010 15:19|
|Last Modified:||12 Apr 2010 15:19|
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