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Mobile communities for cancer patients
The intersection of healthcare, peer support, online community, and mobile devices seems to me to be a fruitful one. Here's something on mobile communities for cancer patients: reports Howard Rheingold for TheFeature.com. "This article describes mobile virtual healthcare communities as a solution for meeting cancer patients' needs for information and interaction. After a short introduction into the German healthcare system and its potential starting points for virtual communities, the authors focus on cancer patients. They analyse their situation through field studies and identify information and interaction needs. On this basis, requirements for user centric socio-technical system design for cancer patients are derived. " |
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