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Interdisciplinary Information Design with an Empowerment Strategy

  • Anders Barlach
  • , Axel Engberg
  • , Bodil Pallesen

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    Abstract

    An innovative research into a model for ICT enabled Empowerment. By deliberate use of ICT and a feedback-focused communication model in a prototyping process, e-health information based on an empowerment strategy is evaluated. Overall a risk-driven spiral model is applied for Progress and Complexity handling in order to ensure success. The process model devised has a proactive approach to interdisciplinary teamwork, organisational web maturity, and the post-modern user's interaction with ICT. The research is performed and evaluated in cooperation with an interdisciplinary team of health professionals, and voluntary groups of patients from an athletic clinic in a Danish University Hospital.Results are as follows: INDIVIDUAL LEVEL: Empowerment is evaluated as successful using Empiric reception analysis, based on social and humanistic sciences, and showing traces of Empowerment from the patient's perspective. ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL: Nursing Informatics becomes a tool in the interdisciplinary understanding, allowing the nurses to take responsibility for core nursing themes regarding the healthy and the diseased phases of the patients' lives. Iterative modelling ensuring the results is evident and derived from the patient's perspective.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationConsumer-Centered Computer-Supported Care for Healthy People
    EditorsH-A. Park, P. Murray, C. Delaney
    Number of pages5
    Volume122
    Place of PublicationLansdale PA
    PublisherIOS Press
    Publication dateJun 2006
    Pages200-204
    ISBN (Print)978-1-58603-622-5
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2006
    SeriesStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
    ISSN0926-9630

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