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Directions for ICT Research in Disease Prevention

Directions for ICT Research in Disease Prevention
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Author(s): Marco Nalin (Fondazione Centro San Raffaele, Italy), Monica Verga (Fondazione Centro San Raffaele, Italy), Alberto Sanna (Fondazione Centro San Raffaele, Italy)and Niilo Saranummi (VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Finland)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 19
Source title: Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services
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: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch012

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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.

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