Electronic Healthcare. Second International ICST Conference, eHealth 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, September 23-15, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

A Web2.0 Platform in Healthcare Created on the Basis of the Real Perceived Need of the Elderly End User

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_27,
        author={Giovanni Rinaldi and Antonio Gaddi and Arrigo Cicero and Fabio Bonsanto and Lucio Carnevali},
        title={A Web2.0 Platform in Healthcare Created on the Basis of the Real Perceived Need of the Elderly End User},
        proceedings={Electronic Healthcare. Second International ICST Conference, eHealth 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, September 23-15, 2009, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={E-HEALTH},
        year={2012},
        month={5},
        keywords={Web 2.0 Medicine 2.0 e-Health personalized healthcare EHR},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_27}
    }
    
  • Giovanni Rinaldi
    Antonio Gaddi
    Arrigo Cicero
    Fabio Bonsanto
    Lucio Carnevali
    Year: 2012
    A Web2.0 Platform in Healthcare Created on the Basis of the Real Perceived Need of the Elderly End User
    E-HEALTH
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_27
Giovanni Rinaldi1,*, Antonio Gaddi1, Arrigo Cicero1, Fabio Bonsanto1, Lucio Carnevali1
  • 1: CUP2000, Via del Borgo di S. Pietro 90/c, 40100 Bologna Italy, University of Bologna Medicine Faculty Via Massarenti
*Contact email: giovanni.rinaldi@cup2000.it

Abstract

The elderly care is characterized by integration of health and social care, is performed by several different agencies, requires a continuum of assistance and not episodic approach. These considerations has led us to overcome the traditional ICT approach done by several applications connected with property mechanism towards new solutions proposed by web2.0. We think that a federative platform can support the elderly needs (detected through focus groups) providing them web2.0 solutions in health care. The main features of the federation are: publishing/subscribe, messaging and signaling. These dimensions allows elderly to participate actively in their own healthcare through the access to their own health and social record, the composition of their own health and social space, and the participation to social networks for remaining socially active. Moreover, the process of dis-intermediation is also allowed. More emphasis is posed in the federative platform for the governance of the services as requested by elderly.