title: Cognitive human factors for telemedicine systems.
abstract: The recent integration of telephony systems with information and communication technology (ICT) enables the development of innovative tools for telemedicine. The dissemination and widespread acceptance of telephone-based care monitoring systems challenge the researcher to deal with the cognitive factors involved in the patient-physician interaction, and the way they should be to shape up the technological solutions. This paper proposes a model that describes the impact of socio-cognitive factors in the complex process of health care management. The model has been used to design and develop a telephone system for the management of hypertensive patient within the EU funded Homey project. The knowledge existed in a widely accepted guideline for the care of hypertension has been represented and augmented through the proposed cognitive model. The final product is an intelligent system able to manage an adaptive dialogue. It monitors patients' adherence and increases their involvement by promoting self-care through frequent virtual visits, which is complementary to the traditional face-to-face encounters with their primary care physicians.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio di Informatica Medica, Dip. di Informatica e Sistemica, Università di Pavia, Italy. matteo@aim.unipv.it
authors.forename: Matteo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Piazza
authors.forename: Toni
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Giorgino
authors.forename: Ivano
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Azzini
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stefanelli
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D019336:Cognitive Science; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000628:therapy*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012648:Self Care / Q000523:psychology; D017216:Telemedicine; D013689:Telephone