Abstract
The market for ICT enabled Personal Health Systems in
secondary prevention, namely chronic disease management
systems, is already emerging, and from an ICT research
perspective, challenges in this domain have been tackled
in the last decade. This chapter instead will focus on
ICT research directions for primary prevention, i.e.,
taking care of individuals' health before they actually
become "patients" of any chronic condition. Primary
prevention proposes strong challenges, especially because
a healthy person is less interested in investing time and
money in solutions for improving/maintaining her health
status. This chapter proposes a model in which the
citizen can become a co-producer of her own health,
together with the traditional Healthcare Systems and with
other entities that may find interesting business
opportunities to enter in this game
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services |
| Editors | Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Isabel Maria Miranda, Patricia Gonçalves |
| Publisher | IGI Global |
| Chapter | 12 |
| Pages | 229-247 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4666-3987-4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4666-3986-7 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| MoE publication type | D2 Article in professional manuals or guides or professional information systems or text book material |