Requirements for user-friendly personal health information systems.
This paper presents background of personal health systems research and analyses requirements for personal health systems from various perspectives. The analysis shows that social and contextual aspects of personal health systems need more attention in the future and that systems development should not be technology-driven but driven by user needs and use contexts.
University of Tampere, Department of Computer Sciences, Finland. Pirkko.Nykanen@uta.fi
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D006284:Health Plan Implementation; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D020407:Internet; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D014584:User-Computer Interface