Background The number of eHealth applications has exponentially increased in recent
years, with over 325,000 health apps now available on all major app stores. This is in …

In this review article, we aim to depict how healthcare facilities may look in the near future
from an architectural design point of view. For this purpose, we review newly introduced …

Self-tracking is an important part of self-care. However, predefined self-tracking approaches
can impede people's agency in managing their health. We investigated a customisable and …

Personal health technologies such as apps and wearables that generate health and
behavior data close to the individual patient are envisioned to enable personalized …

In developing countries suffering from a severe shortage of physicians, the follow-up clinical
consultation of long-term chronic care becomes a high-speed collaborative work, which has …

Background Worldwide, the number of people with Parkinson's disease (PD) is predicted to
double between the years 2005 and 2030. Chronic care management requires active …

Patent applications provide insight into how inventors imagine and legitimize uses of their
imagined technologies; as part of this imagining they envision social worlds and produce …

Telecare has the potential to increase the quality of care while also decreasing costs.
However, despite great potential, efficiency in care practices and cost reduction remain …

Background Mobile health applications are increasingly used to support the delivery of
health care services to a variety of patients. Based on data obtained from a pragmatic trial of …

We propose to extend CSCW research to include the design of buildings for cooperative
work and to engage in designing Human-Building Interaction supporting cooperative …