TY - JOUR
T1 - Innovations in e-health
AU - Wicks, Paul
AU - Stamford, Jon
AU - Grootenhuis, Martha A.
AU - Haverman, Lotte
AU - Ahmed, Sara
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments SA is supported by a Career Award (Grant #13870) from the Fond de Recherche en Sante du Quebec. PW is an employee of PatientsLikeMe and owns stock/stock options in the company. The PatientsLikeMe R&D team has received research funding from Abbott, Accorda, the AKU Society, AstraZeneca, Avanir, Biogen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genzyme, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Novartis, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and UCB. Jon Stamford is a cofounder of Parkinson’s movement, which has received consultancy fees from uMotif.
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - The theme of ISOQOL's 19th Annual Conference in Budapest, Hungary, was The Journey of Quality of Life Research: A Path Towards Personalized Medicine. Innovations in e-health was one of four plenary panels. E-health is changing the landscape of clinical practice and health care, but the best way to leverage the many promised benefits of emerging e-health technologies is still not clear. The Innovations in e-health panel presented emerging changes in technologies and applications that will facilitate clinical decision making, improve quality and efficiency of care, engage individuals in clinical decision making, and empower them to adopt healthy behaviors. The purpose of this paper was to present emerging trends in e-health and considerations for successful adoption of new technologies, and an overview of each of the presentations in the e-health plenary. The presentations included a personal perspective on the use of technology for self-monitoring in Parkinson's disease, an overview of online social networks and emerging technologies, and the collection of patient-reported outcomes through web-based systems in clinical practice. The common thread across all the talks was the application of e-health tools to empower individuals with chronic disease to be actively engaged in the management of their health. Considerations regarding data ownership and privacy, universal access to e-health, interactivity between different types of e-health technologies, and tailoring applications to individual needs were explored.
AB - The theme of ISOQOL's 19th Annual Conference in Budapest, Hungary, was The Journey of Quality of Life Research: A Path Towards Personalized Medicine. Innovations in e-health was one of four plenary panels. E-health is changing the landscape of clinical practice and health care, but the best way to leverage the many promised benefits of emerging e-health technologies is still not clear. The Innovations in e-health panel presented emerging changes in technologies and applications that will facilitate clinical decision making, improve quality and efficiency of care, engage individuals in clinical decision making, and empower them to adopt healthy behaviors. The purpose of this paper was to present emerging trends in e-health and considerations for successful adoption of new technologies, and an overview of each of the presentations in the e-health plenary. The presentations included a personal perspective on the use of technology for self-monitoring in Parkinson's disease, an overview of online social networks and emerging technologies, and the collection of patient-reported outcomes through web-based systems in clinical practice. The common thread across all the talks was the application of e-health tools to empower individuals with chronic disease to be actively engaged in the management of their health. Considerations regarding data ownership and privacy, universal access to e-health, interactivity between different types of e-health technologies, and tailoring applications to individual needs were explored.
KW - Clinical practice
KW - E-health
KW - Internet
KW - Patient-reported outcome
KW - Social network
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84895057429&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11136-013-0458-x
DO - 10.1007/s11136-013-0458-x
M3 - Review article
C2 - 23852096
AN - SCOPUS:84895057429
SN - 0962-9343
VL - 23
SP - 195
EP - 203
JO - Quality of Life Research
JF - Quality of Life Research
IS - 1
ER -