Patient Empowerment through Personal Medical Recommendations.

Stud Health Technol Inform

Computational BioMedicine Laboratory, FORTH-ICS, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

Published: March 2016

Patients today have ample opportunities to inform themselves about their disease and possible treatments using the Internet. While this type of patient empowerment is widely regarded as having a positive influence on the treatment, there exists the problem that the quality of information that can be found on online is very diverse. This paper presents a platform which empowers patients by allowing searching in a high quality document repository. In addition, it automatically provides intelligent and personalized recommendations according to the individual preferences and medical conditions.

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