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On Location-Based Services for Patient Empowerment, Guidance and Safety

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The importance of patients’ active participation in healthcare delivery and disease management has been highlighted in various studies, especially for chronic patients. Overall, patient empowerment, guidance and safety constitute concrete goals in modern healthcare systems. To this end, mobile computing technologies can enable to realize such services in a pervasive manner, tailored to each patient’s specific needs. The current work elaborates on the utilization of outdoor location information to deliver personalized services to patients, discriminating among reactive and proactive services according to their initiator and nature. In this regard, we present various use cases and relevant applications that have been developed by our group, exploiting this way the virtue and applicability introduced via the adoption of location-based services. The ultimate goal of this work is the development and establishment of an integrated framework for providing location-based healthcare information services targeting patient safety, empowerment and guidance.

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  1. Lab of Medical Informatics, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, P.O. Box 323, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Andreas K. Triantafyllidis, Vassilis G. Koutkias, Ioannis Moulos & Nicos Maglaveras

  2. Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Research, Center for Research and Technology, 6th Km. Charilaou-Thermi, P.O. Box 60361, 57001, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Andreas K. Triantafyllidis, Vassilis G. Koutkias, Ioannis Moulos & Nicos Maglaveras

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty, National Technical University of Athens, 9, Iroon Polytechniou, 15773, Athens, Greece

    Konstantina S. Nikita

  2. University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan M/C 154, 60607, Chicago, IL, USA

    James C. Lin

  3. Dept.of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, 451 10, Ioannina, Greece

    Dimitrios I. Fotiadis

  4. Dpto. TecnologĂ­a FotĂłnica, ETSI TelecomunicaciĂłn, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Life Supporting Technologies, Ciudad Universitaria, s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Maria-Teresa Arredondo Waldmeyer

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Triantafyllidis, A.K., Koutkias, V.G., Moulos, I., Maglaveras, N. (2012). On Location-Based Services for Patient Empowerment, Guidance and Safety. In: Nikita, K.S., Lin, J.C., Fotiadis, D.I., Arredondo Waldmeyer, MT. (eds) Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. MobiHealth 2011. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 83. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29734-2_58

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