Personal health monitoring - exploiting the power of the personal telephone
| Autor: | Amir Hannan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
education.field_of_study Primary Health Care business.industry Clinical Biochemistry Internet privacy Population Face (sociological concept) General Medicine Personal health monitoring Health Promotion Power (social and political) Health promotion General partnership Medicine Humans The Internet Social media business education Cell Phone |
| Zdroj: | Annals of clinical biochemistry. 52(Pt 6) |
| ISSN: | 1758-1001 |
| Popis: | Many health issues that we currently face are related to our lifestyle choices. Educating patients can help them to make better informed health decisions. The internet and smartphones, mobile telephones that perform many of the functions of a computer, are becoming more accessible to the majority of the population. Applications on smartphones and professional health websites can signpost patients to trusted information and allow them to co-produce records. Empowering patients, staff and organizations through enabling access to records and understanding, building a partnership trust and the use of social media can enable people to do more and hopefully improve outcomes. In this article, I describe the steps we have taken to facilitate such interactions within our own primary care practice and the response of patients to these initiatives. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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