Many to One : Analysis of Information Models for Telemedicine in Patient Centric Perspective (original) (raw)

ICT enablement of information sharing and exchange between health employees and citizens across organizations and private homes is one of the mechanisms to enhance patient empowerment. However, heterogeneity of information models and the employeecentric nature of most healthcare systems make information exchange, with a focus on the interests of patients, non-trivial. For example, it is not clear how the free-text and patient initiated interaction features of emerging patient empowering telemedicine can integrate to the many employee centric systems with heterogeneous information models. From the perspectives of enabling patients’ read/write initiatives across health related standards, from a unified interface, we conduct analysis of the following information domains that support: (A) healthcare employees and are specific to formal procedures inside a healthcare scope; (B) patient and care givers and are also specific to formal procedures in a healthcare scope; (C) any group and are...