title: Healthcare model with use of information and communication technology for patients with chronic disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The healthcare system is positioned in the patient's environment and works with other determinants of the treatment. Patient care requires a whole system compatible to the needs of organizational and technical solutions. The purpose of this study is to present a new model of patient-oriented care, in which the use of information and communication technology (ICT) can improve the effectiveness of healthcare for patients with chronic diseases.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study material is the process of healthcare for chronically ill patients. Knowledge of the circumstances surrounding ecosystem and of the patients' needs, taking into account the fundamental healthcare goals allows us to build a new models of care, starting with the economic assumptions. The method used is modeling the construction of efficient healthcare system with the patient-centered model using ICT tools.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We present a new systemic concept of building patient's environment in which he is the central figure of the healthcare organization - so called patient centered system. The use of ICT in the model of chronic patient's healthcare can improve the effectiveness of this kind of care. The concept is a vision to making wide platform of information management in chronic disease in a real environment ecosystem of patient using ICT tools.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  On the basis of a systematic approach to the model of chronic disease, and the knowledge of the patient itself, a model of the ecosystem impacts and interactions through information feedback and the provision of services can be constructed. ICT assisted techniques will increase the effectiveness of patient care, in which nowadays information exchange plays a key role.
authors.affiliation: Department of the Prevention of Environmental Hazards and Allergology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Mira
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lisiecka-Biełanowicz
authors.affiliation: Department of the Prevention of Environmental Hazards and Allergology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; ISE, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Zbigniew
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wawrzyniak
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D003142:Communication; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011446:Prospective Studies