Personalised patient education: linking Internet resources to the
EPR
The automated tailoring of auxiliary information to an individual
patient’s needs has been piloted recently in the Netherlands. Dr
Persephone Doupi describes the aims and experiences of the STEPPS
project.
keywords: patient education,
electronic patient record, internet, personalisation.
abstract
Patient-education programmes achieve better results when educational
material is adapted to the characteristics of the individual recipient.
In the research project Structured Evaluated Personalised Patient
Support (STEPPS), we are exploring a novel strategy for personalised or
tailored patient education, where electronic patient record data is
integrated with content derived from healthcare information resources on
the Internet.
The technical feasibility of this approach needs to be complemented
by quality assurance of online healthcare information. Further, choices
made in the design and configuration of the system should be guided by
the considerations for its implementation in healthcare practice
settings.
Br J Healthcare Comput Info Manage 2003; 20(8): 35–7. |
