ICT-Supported Disease Management
The World Health Organisation believes that over 60% of healthcare expenditure today is due to the management of chronic diseases. Information and communication technologies have a proven role in both dramatically reducing the costs of disease management and increasing the quality and efficiency of care.
- Using a disease-specific electronic patient record makes complete information available at the point of care and helps the doctor to find the right and efficient treatment
- Continuous compliance and regular preventive actions avoid critical and acute situations
- Homecare and self-monitoring help to increase compliance
- The different doctors visited by the patient during his/her lifetime should continue smoothly with treatment where the predecessor has ended, using complete information
