title: The use of ICT in the delivery of healthcare services to the chronic patient.
abstract: Chronic diseases cause a major problem to the modern health care services world wide. Our work describes a new approach to tackle the problem of the chronically ill patients, by using information and communication technology (ICT) for patient's empowerment and managed their care. Our research, which is conducted with close cooperation with the health maintenance organizations and is still continuing, is based on a "bottom-up" approach and is also aimed at changing paradigms, well established in the western healthcare services.
authors.affiliation: Sackler Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel. mshani@post.tau.ac.il
authors.forename: Mordechai
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shani
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000534:rehabilitation; D006801:Humans; D012648:Self Care; D017216:Telemedicine