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Towards Delivering Disease Support Processes for Patient Empowerment Using Mobile Virtual Communities
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2012
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
In existing healthcare systems, the focus is on clinical processes to assess the health condition of patients, making clinical decisions and applying therapeutic procedures all under control of health professionals. However, patients with chronic diseases usually face many disease related problems that are not immediately under control or supervision of a health professional. Taking patients with chronic cardiovascular diseases as an example, these patients are recommended to make a number of
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