Underpinning a Guiding Theory of Patient-Centered E-Health

Underpinning a Guiding Theory of Patient-Centered E-Health

ion. E-health services are supported and transported via Internet technologies, which are dynamic and fastchanging. Our approach to ensure adequate abstraction across time in our research design was to search across the most recent five years of published studies rather than extending the search back to an era of limited bandwidth and reduced computational capabilities. Abstraction across space...

Creating Patient-Centered E-Health

As e-health applications have increased in number and variety, the generalized concept of e-health as “health services and information delivered or enhanced through the Internet” (Eysenbach, 2001) has lost much of its value as a mechanism for guiding development and research in this emerging field (Pagliari et al., 2005). E-health has expanded to comprise purely clinical applications (e.g., phy...

Patient-Centered E-Health: A Status Report

Patient-Centered E-Health (PCEH) is an increasingly important part of health information technology. Yet the literature in this area is mainly descriptive and atheoretical, which limits opportunities for research advancement. This paper addresses the theoretical proposition that the benefits of PCEH can be maximized by incorporating three essential characteristics: Patientfocus, patient-activit...

A Patient-centered Health System

Patient-centered Fertility Care: From Theory to Practice

Background & aim: Healthcare areas, especially fertility care (commonly accompanied with high emotions, as well as long-term and recurring treatment periods) could exclusively benefit from patient-centered care (PCC). Despite evident advantages of PCC, this approach has not been practiced as a routine procedure in current clinical environments yet, even in western developed countries. Therefore...