Improving Health using Therapies 2.0 with Ubiquitous Wireless Access

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Author(s): Elsa M. Macías (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain), Alvaro Suarez (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)and Fernando Calvo (Grupo de Psicología de la Salud, Spain)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 18
Source title: Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal), Isabel Maria Miranda (Municipality of Guimarães, Portugal)and Patricia Gonçalves (School of Technology at the Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3990-4.ch050

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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Improved 4G communication technologies in conjunction to Web 2.0 technologies are contributing to design and implement new and exciting healthcare services for citizens that can be accessed any time and any place. Tobacco is a risk factor causing increased morbidity and mortality in developed countries. Smoking cessation is a hard challenge for several people that can be achieve with the help of Web 2.0 and wireless access technologies to multimedia information. There are a lot of basic Web 1.0 portals for smoking cessation. The authors present an overview of serious damages or even death provoked by nicotine poisoning, an overview of on-line group therapies, and their user-centric Web 2.0 Portal intended for smoking cessation. They demonstrate innovative and effective facts of their Web 2.0 portal: Wireless access, scheduled agendas, and video on-demand services.

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