Abstract
This paper examines a wide variety of issues concerning the doctorpatient relation, the medical model, the role of technology in self-care, and the issues of patient empowerment in current healthcare systems. The aim of the paper is to open up a debate concerning many of the background assumptions embedded in the rapidly expanding fields of self-care and home-health care, and to re-shape the role of technology in the design of a truly patient-centred healthcare system.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Health Informatics |
| Subtitle of host publication | An Adaptive Communication Technology for Future Healthcare |
| Publisher | Nova Science Publishers, Inc. |
| Pages | 135-172 |
| Number of pages | 38 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781619422650 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- Biomedical model
- Infrastructure
- Patient empowerment
- Patient-centred design.
- Practice
- Self-care
- Socio-technical