Re-thinking technology and its growing role in enabling patient empowerment

Akeel, Aisha Umar; Mundy, Darren

Abstract

© The Author(s) 2018. The presence and increase of challenges to eHealth in today’s society have begun to generate doubts about the capability of technology in patient empowerment, especially within the frameworks supporting empowerment. Through the review of existing frameworks and articulation of patient demands, weaknesses in the current application of technology to support empowerment are explored, and key constituents of a technology-driven framework for patient empowerment are determined. This article argues that existing usage of technology in the design, development and implementation of patient empowerment in the healthcare system, although well intentioned, is insufficiently constituted, primarily as a result of fragmentation. Systems theory concepts such as holism and iteration are considered vital in improving the role of technology in enabling patient empowerment.

Citation

Akeel, A. U., & Mundy, D. (2019). Re-thinking technology and its growing role in enabling patient empowerment. Health Informatics Journal, 25(4), 1278-1289. https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458217751013

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 9, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Jan 24, 2018
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2019
• Deposit Date: May 18, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 24, 2018
• Journal: Health Informatics Journal
• Print ISSN: 1460-4582
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 1278-1289
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1460458217751013
• Keywords: eHealth; Frameworks; Iteration; Patient empowerment; Technology
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/438343
• Publisher URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1460458217751013?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3dpubmed
• Additional Information: This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article which has been accepted for future publication in: Health informatics journal
• Contract Date: May 18, 2016