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Open Source Disease Control Software Development - The Role of Patients

Jose Teixeira, Reima Suomi, Open Source Disease Control Software Development - The Role of Patients. In: Elena Ferrari (Ed.), Proceedings of ECIME 2011 The 5h European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, Como, Italy on 8-9 September 2011, 467-475, Academic Publishing Limited, 2011.

Abstract:

Healthcare information systems are traditionally developed in institutional organizations such as medical providers’ research labs, software houses and hospitals. IT and medical professionals are the perpetual analysts and developers of most health-care information systems on the market. A new phenomenon is emerging patients that turn themselves in the creators of new healthcare information systems. For this paper we extend our previous research on how chronic patients are taking the lead on the open-source development of new healthcare information systems and its implications for providers of commercial healthcare information systems. By systemically screening online communities of diabetic patients, we try to aggregate the feedback that those patients are giving to these new open-source systems. Moreover, we try to answer how different this new open-source software is from the installed traditional solutions.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpTeSu11a,
  title = {Open Source Disease Control Software Development - The Role of Patients},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of ECIME 2011 The 5h European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, Como, Italy on 8-9 September 2011},
  author = {Teixeira, Jose and Suomi, Reima},
  editor = {Ferrari, Elena},
  publisher = {Academic Publishing Limited},
  pages = {467-475},
  year = {2011},
  keywords = {E-Health, Chronic Care, Patient Empowerment, Open-source, User innovation},
}

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