| MOBILE COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTING IN HEALTHCARE: DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING MOBILE VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES FOR CANCER PATIENTS (2009) | |||||||||||||||
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| In this paper we describe mobile virtual healthcare communities as a solution for meeting cancer patients information and interaction needs 1. After an introduction into the healthcare system and its potential starting points for virtual communities we focus on cancer patients. We analyse their situation through field studies and identify information and interaction needs. On this basis we derive requirements for user centric socio technical system design for cancer patients. Since no existing offers meet these prerequisites we intend to develop and implement a mobile healthcare community for cancer patients. Three topics are of special interest. First, to what extent mobile community services accomplish information supply and social integration, second, how specific service models for healthcare communities have to be constructed and third what specifications a possible technical infrastructure has to meet. Subjects like ubiquitous community access, new possibilities of user identification and location related services are of special interest. Only socially accepted, technically stable and economically feasible solutions can ensure sustainable success of mobile virtual healthcare | |||||||||||||||
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