Toward IT-based Self-reporting Methods for Better Compliance to Computer-interpretable Guidelines

Patients’ compliance to guidelines is one of the main barriers to treatment success in general and to behavioral modification in particular. Self-reporting is often the only available method to measure patients’ compliance. Moreover, it is known that self-reporting may even increase guideline compliance. This makes both quality and quantity of self-reporting a crucial issue in a variety of healthcare settings. Recent advances in computer-based guidelines create a variety of new IT-based opportunities to implement self-reporting and there is an increasing number of works on the topic. In this study we will focus on self-reporting in the context of behavioral modification guidelines. Our goal is to investigate IT-based self-reporting methods and strategies to implement CIGs and increase compliance to them. As a case study, we focus on behavior modification for dogs through their owners.