Adapting Web-Based Information to the Needs of Patients with Cancer

Bental, Diana; Cawsey, Alison; Pearson, Janne; Jones, Ray

doi:10.1007/3-540-44595-1_4

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“…physiotherapists, dietitians, social workers), families, carers, and, of course, the patients. Health information systems include hospital administration systems, electronic health records, computer aided diagnosis systems, healthcare decision support systems, imaging informatics, pharmaceutical systems, and patient health education systems [see for example Hovenga et al 1996;Ayres et al 2006;Bental et al 2000].…”

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Information Systems and Healthcare XXVIII: The Information Needs of Family Carers in Collaborative Healthcare

Nguyen¹,

Shanks²,

Vetere³

et al. 2008

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While the important role of family carers has been increasingly recognized in healthcare service provision, particularly for patients with acute or chronic illnesses, the family carer's information needs have not been well understood or adequately supported by health information systems. In this study, we explore the information needs of a family carer by analyzing the extensive online diary of a Vietnamese family carer supporting his wife, who was a lung cancer patient. The study provides a deep understanding of the information needs of the family carer and suggests a four-stage information journey model including identification, searching, interpretation and information sharing, and collaboration. A number of themes emerge from the study including the key role of the carer, information filtering by the carer, information sharing and collaboration, and the influence of Vietnamese culture. The paper concludes with a discussion of the requirements for health information systems that meet the needs of family carers.Associate Professor Steve Howard has worked in many areas of HCI, including usability engineering, use-centered innovation, and 'post-usability' interpretations of user experience. Steve's current primary focus is 'IT in the wild,' mostly mobile and pervasive computing applied to problems of real social need.

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Information Systems and Healthcare XXVIII: The Information Needs of Family Carers in Collaborative Healthcare

Nguyen¹,

Shanks²,

Vetere³

et al. 2008

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“…Information personalization in an E-Healthcare context for the purposes for patient education and empowerment is quite prevalent [8,27,28] and there is a growing demand for adaptive websites that deliver personalized wellness maintenance information on an individual and community basis. We have applied our IC framework towards the dissemination of personalized healthcare information, for a limited number of medical problems, via a restricted website managed by medical professionals.…”

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E-healthcare via Customized Information Services: Addressing the Need for Factually Consistent Information

Chong

2003

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Web portals provide an efficient gateway to a broad range of Eservices, resources and information. Web portals need to evolve towards being adaptive in nature, so that the ensuing E-services provided by them are dynamically tailored to meet the diverse needs of its users. This paper explores the use of intelligent techniques, in particular constraint satisfaction methods, to develop adaptive E-services that provide customized and factually consistent information to users. We model the generation of customized information content as a constraint satisfaction problem-a solution is derived by (a) satisfying user-model constraints with information document selection constraints; and (b) establishing inter-document consistency when dynamically combining heterogeneous information documents. The work is applied in an E-Healthcare setting leading to the generation of personalized healthcare information.

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“…It aims to improve the organization and presentation of websites (Perkowitz, M. and Etzioni,O., 1997 cited in Mican and Tomai, 2010) by adaptively selecting, prioritizing and manipulating links and content (Brusilovsky and Milan, 2007). The reasons which gave rise to the development of adaptive systems are varied, for instance, to give personalized recommendations (Balabanović, 1997), to personalize learning experience in tutoring systems (Baena, et al, 2000) or even to and even to adapt information for terminally--ill patients (Bental, et al, 2000). Furthermore, there are many approaches to adaptivity.…”

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Taking Social Networks to the Next Level

Dingli

Seychell

2012

International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies

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Since the boom of social networking lead to people using multiple account on many platforms in order to keep in touch with hundreds of contacts, managing one's contacts risks becoming a burden for many users. Following and finding information about friends and family has become an issue too. Guided by these observations and by careful research of existing adaptive web technologies, our team worked on the development of SNAP -- an adaptive social network integrator which aimed to amalgamate various social networks (Facebook, Twitter and Flickr) in one adaptive environment, which unobtrusively sorts the users' feed according to his/her preference. To achieve data transfer and authorisation, SNAP uses the newest version of the OAuth protocol. Adaptivity was achieved through statistical filtering. The initial field tests show that the system works, however there is definitely room for improvement in terms of Social Network Integration, and testers generally expressed an interest in the idea of using an adaptive social integrator such as SNAP. On top of this, we will be suggesting a number of improvements which will change the way we use social networks forever. KEYWORDSsocial networking, adaptive systems, adaptive hypermedia systems, social network portal, social network integration

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Adapting Web-Based Information to the Needs of Patients with Cancer

Cited by 21 publications

References 16 publications

Information Systems and Healthcare XXVIII: The Information Needs of Family Carers in Collaborative Healthcare

Information Systems and Healthcare XXVIII: The Information Needs of Family Carers in Collaborative Healthcare

E-healthcare via Customized Information Services: Addressing the Need for Factually Consistent Information

Taking Social Networks to the Next Level

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