Title
Alignment of Concerns: A Design Rationale for Patient Participation in eHealth
Abstract
The emergence of patient-centered eHealth systems introduces new challenges, where patients come to play an increasingly important role. Realizing the promises requires an in-depth understanding of not only the technology, but also the needs of both clinicians and patients. However, insights from medical phenomenology bring forth how physicians and patients focus on different aspects of illness and that they often have starkly divergent concerns. This has important implications for the design of eHealth systems that seek to engage patients as active participants. We emphasize the crucial importance of acknowledging these fundamental differences between patients' and physicians' everyday projects and we illustrate it by three case examples from a participatory design project of constructing a personal health record for chronic heart patients and their clinicians. We summarize our suggestion as a design rationale for successful eHealth, termed 'alignment of concerns'.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/HICSS.2014.327
System Sciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
important implication,patient-centered ehealth system,design rationale,important role,patient participation,case example,chronic heart patient,active participant,successful ehealth,ehealth system,participatory design project
Patient participation,Phenomenology (philosophy),Participatory design,Computer science,Knowledge management,eHealth,Design rationale,Health informatics,Patient treatment,Personal health
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1060-3425
5
0.44
References 
Authors
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tariq Andersen1416.20
Jørgen P. Bansler226726.03
Finn Kensing356967.49
Jonas Moll4373.69
Karen Dam Nielsen551.12