Journal of Health & Medical Informatics

Kerstin Denecke

Publications

• Research Article
  A Mobile Cancer Follow-up Care Plan for Patient Empowerment
  Author(s): Kerstin Denecke, Tim L Dorner, Rea Iseli, Sarah Mele, Mauro Tschanz, Carsten T Viehl, Michael Lehmann and Thomas BürkleKerstin Denecke, Tim L Dorner, Rea Iseli, Sarah Mele, Mauro Tschanz, Carsten T Viehl, Michael Lehmann and Thomas Bürkle
  
  An increasing prevalence of cancer requires new ways of supporting outpatients and improving their compliance to treatment. Initial mostly surgical treatment is followed by long-term surveillance to detect and treat cancer recurrence timely. Depending on the tumor stage, the frequencies of follow-up appointments differ and the patient has to remember to make these appointments at the right time. Currently, the patient receives a paper-based schema indicating the follow-up schedule. Since this document is difficult to understand or may get lost, patients are missing the follow-up appointments. This paper illustrates our attempt at exploiting mHealth to support the empowerment and awareness in outpatients by a mobile, bilingual app that supports variable cancer follow-up schedules. Installed on a mobile device, the app reminds the patient to schedule his appointments timely and provides.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7420.1000268

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