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The emerging crucial point of healthcare organizations is to involve patients in autonomous monitoring their own health status by using personal ICT-based systems to manage data, and to ask for an effective cooperation with the doctor, if necessary. Two motivations urge this innovation: the growing costs of healthcare services, and the need to promote patients’ education. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to outline a Patient Guidance System (PGS) architecture to allow the patients an ubiquitous and secure management of personal health data and an easy call to the doctor in case of a critical or suspicious health situation. The PGS architecture will support an effective cooperation between the patient and the doctor in such a way to assure to the patient – either at home, or moving and/or being monitored by wearable devices – a clear interaction to get an easily understandable healthcare service.
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Antonelli, D., Bellomo, D., Bruno, G., Villa, A. (2012). Evaluating Collaboration Effectiveness of Patient-to-Doctor Interaction in a Healthcare Territorial Network. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Xu, L., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds) Collaborative Networks in the Internet of Services. PRO-VE 2012. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 380. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32775-9_13
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