From Patient Information Services to Patient Guidance Services---The iCare Approach
Internet of Things and Inter-cooperative Computational Technologies for Collective Intelligence, volume 460 of Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, Heidelberg, (2013)DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34952-2_17
Abstract
The provision of the Health services in the EU despite the evolvement of ICT follows a rather traditional path were the patient is totally dependable from his/hers doctors seeking guidance for every decision he/she needs to take related to his/her condition. The vision of the iCare approach is to provide better support to patients from the comfort of their home. This paper presents a new innovative approach to improve Patient Guidance Services (PGS). iCare approach takes full advantage of Semantic Web technologies and IoT and provides a new approach that would put the demands of the patient in the center and exploiting the available sources it will offer patient guidance services reducing dramatically the patient dependency from his/her doctors.
