AbstractsComputer Science

Building up a Virtual Community for Home-Based Chronic Diseases Healthcare

by Yan Hu




Institution: Blekinge Institute of Technology
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Year: 2014
Keywords: computer science - effects on society; virtual community; home-based healthcare; chronic disease; requirements
Record ID: 1366176
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Abstract

With the development of Internet, social networks get more and more popular, it brings us an idea of designing a virtual community for home-based chronic diseases healthcare. In this paper, we conduct a questionnaire to gather the requirements of the community and describe them with user stories. Afterwards, a conceptual prototype is developed based on the requirements. The proposed virtual community involves healthcare providers, healthcare recipients and other people relevant to the home-based healthcare into one platform. It will solve the interoperability problems of current healthcare systems, as well as provide a technical solution of home-based healthcare.