Abstract
Empowerment of patients is today often an explicit goal of various ICT interventions where the patients themselves use ICT tools, often via the internet. This study is proposing a framework model for ICT interventions aiming to empower patients. Our new model includes different aspects of the Empowerment concept, general possible strategies to achieve Empowerment using different ICT services. Finally, the ICT services and the underlying strategic model can be used to define evaluations of such interventions where the aim is to demonstrate Empowerment. Our model is based on a review of various general models of Empowerment and the Behavioral Intervention Technology Model (BIT). The implications of our model are discussed using two case studies projects, the C3-Cloud EU project about empowering patients with 4 chronic diseases and the EMPARK project about Internet-of-Things sensors based real time feedback to Parkinson patients.
Recommended Citation
Karni, Liran; Memedi, Mevludin; and Klein, Gunnar O., "Targeting Patient Empowerment via ICT interventions: An ICT-specific Analytical Framework" (2019). AMCIS 2019 Proceedings. 22.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2019/healthcare_it/healthcare_it/22
Targeting Patient Empowerment via ICT interventions: An ICT-specific Analytical Framework
Empowerment of patients is today often an explicit goal of various ICT interventions where the patients themselves use ICT tools, often via the internet. This study is proposing a framework model for ICT interventions aiming to empower patients. Our new model includes different aspects of the Empowerment concept, general possible strategies to achieve Empowerment using different ICT services. Finally, the ICT services and the underlying strategic model can be used to define evaluations of such interventions where the aim is to demonstrate Empowerment. Our model is based on a review of various general models of Empowerment and the Behavioral Intervention Technology Model (BIT). The implications of our model are discussed using two case studies projects, the C3-Cloud EU project about empowering patients with 4 chronic diseases and the EMPARK project about Internet-of-Things sensors based real time feedback to Parkinson patients.