title: Patient empowerment via 'pushed' delivery of Personalised Healthcare educational content over the internet.
abstract: We present an Internet-based Personalised Healthcare Information (PHI) dissemination system. Information personalisation is guided by the individual's current health profile as recorded in his/her EMR. A PHI package is composed by intelligently selecting and synthesizing various topic-specific documents, each corresponding to some health parameter noted in the EMR. To ensure medical consistency, constraint satisfaction techniques are employed during the information selection phase. The resultant PHI package--covering both long-term and immediate health-maintenance requirements--can be pro-actively pushed to the individual via email, thereby ensuring the timely availability of situation-specific health maintenance information. The featured work is in line with the Malaysian Multimedia Super Corridor Telemedicine initiative and can serve as a test-bed to evaluate the effectiveness of PHI, system design and operational considerations for larger-scale deployment.
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Research Group, School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia. sraza@cs.usm.my
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Abidi
authors.forename: C Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Abidi
mesh_terms: D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D017216:Telemedicine