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From Patient Information Services to Patient Guidance Services-The iCare Approach

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Internet of Things and Inter-cooperative Computational Technologies for Collective Intelligence

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The provision of the Health services in the EU despite the evolvement of ICT follows a rather traditional path were the patient is totally dependable from his/hers doctors seeking guidance for every decision he/she needs to take related to his/her condition. The vision of the iCare approach is to provide better support to patients from the comfort of their home. This paper presents a new innovative approach to improve Patient Guidance Services (PGS). iCare approach takes full advantage of Semantic Web technologies and IoT and provides a new approach that would put the demands of the patient in the center and exploiting the available sources it will offer patient guidance services reducing dramatically the patient dependency from his/her doctors.

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  1. Research Programmes Division, M.Kalou 6, GR - 54629, Thessaloniki, Greece

    D. Tektonidis & Adamantios Koumpis

  2. Centre for Electronic Commerce, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, SR6 0DD, United Kingdom

    A. Bokma

  3. School of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupoli, Greece

    E. Kaldoudi

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    Nik Bessis

  2. , Departament De Llenguatges I, Universitat Politècnica De Catalunya, C/Jordi Girona, Campus Nord, ed. Omega 1-3, Barcelona, 08034, Spain

    Fatos Xhafa

  3. School Of Electrical & Computer Engineer, Division Of Communication,, National Technical University Of Athens, Iroon Polytechniou 9, Athens, 15780, Greece

    Dora Varvarigou

  4. School Of Computer Science, and Mathematics, University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB, United Kingdom

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  5. School Of Engineering And Design, Department Of Electronic And, Brunel University, Middlesex, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom

    Maozhen Li

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Tektonidis, D., Bokma, A., Kaldoudi, E., Koumpis, A. (2013). From Patient Information Services to Patient Guidance Services-The iCare Approach. In: Bessis, N., Xhafa, F., Varvarigou, D., Hill, R., Li, M. (eds) Internet of Things and Inter-cooperative Computational Technologies for Collective Intelligence. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 460. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34952-2_17

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