Research Article
Prototyping a Personal Health Record Taking Social and Usability Perspectives into Account
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_7, author={Enrico Piras and Barbara Purin and Marco Stenico and Stefano Forti}, title={Prototyping a Personal Health Record Taking Social and Usability Perspectives into Account}, 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={Personal Health Record SOA}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_7} }- Enrico Piras
Barbara Purin
Marco Stenico
Stefano Forti
Year: 2012
Prototyping a Personal Health Record Taking Social and Usability Perspectives into Account
E-HEALTH
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_7
Abstract
This paper presents the process of design involved in prototyping a Personal Health Record (PHR), a patient-centered information and communication hub. As the PHR has to be used by laypeople, we focused on their health related activities (i.e. information management) carried out in the household using a sociological perspective to elicit the infrastructural requirements of the IT. We identified three distinct document management strategies (zero effort, erratic, networking) and ‘translated’ them into three design characteristics: flexibility, adaptability and customizability. We argue that the key to such PHR success is its capability to support the existing activities carried out by laypeople in managing their health record.