title: Web-based asthma collaboration management and public awareness.
abstract: Recent studies have shown that long-term monitoring of asthma severity can reduce asthma exacerbations, optimise drug therapy and decrease the cost of asthma management. The management of a chronic patient is a collective and cooperative enterprise that may exploit Information Technologies (IT) to improve the overall quality of care. The aim of this paper is to present a web based asthma tool that significantly enhances public information and awareness to support illness prevention, patients independent living through user profiling and personalisation and collaborative work between health professionals, therapists, caregivers and patients through Tele-Care and Tele-Consultation. The system has been tested through a preliminary survey that took place in UK and Greece.
authors.affiliation: University of Aegean, Department of Financial and Management Engineering, 31, Fostini Street, Chios, 82 100, Greece.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Glykas
authors.forename: Panagiotis
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chytas
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000628:therapy*; D019468:Disease Management; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D017216:Telemedicine