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ICITS 2018: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (ICITS 2018) pp 294–308Cite as

An Information Visualization Engine for Situational-Awareness in Health Insurance

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Nowadays the number of chronically idled patients has increased greatly because of unhealthy behaviors. Consequently, healthcare costs related to chronicle medical conditions have also increased. Health insurance players face new challenges on how to prevent disease burdens and how to contribute for a better quality of life and wellbeing for chronic patients. Keeping these patients aware about events requiring their immediate attention assumes therefore a key relevance, contributing simultaneously to promote an active participation of healthcare professionals in monitoring the health status and wellbeing of each chronic patient. This paper presents an information visualization engine for situational-awareness as a way to proactively monitor unhealthy risk behaviors. A metadata model was designed following a user-centric approach and addressing information visualization requirements to streamline the visual representation of events in a collaborative decision making environment. The paper presents the outcomes of a prototype configured to demonstrate how the proposed model can be applied in health insurance field.

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  1. Future Healthcare, Lisbon, Portugal

    Flávio Epifânio

  2. INOV, Lisbon, Portugal

    Gabriel Pestana

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  1. DEI/FCT, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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  2. Systems Department, Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, La Libertad, Ecuador

    Teresa Guarda

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Epifânio, F., Pestana, G. (2018). An Information Visualization Engine for Situational-Awareness in Health Insurance. In: Rocha, Á., Guarda, T. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (ICITS 2018). ICITS 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 721. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73450-7_29

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