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This paper presents the process of design involved in prototyping a Personal Health Record (PHR), a patient-centered information and communication hub. As the PHR has to be used by laypeople, we focused on their health related activities (i.e. information management) carried out in the household using a sociological perspective to elicit the infrastructural requirements of the IT. We identified three distinct document management strategies (zero effort, erratic, networking) and ‘translated’ them into three design characteristics: flexibility, adaptability and customizability. We argue that the key to such PHR success is its capability to support the existing activities carried out by laypeople in managing their health record.
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Piras, E.M., Purin, B., Stenico, M., Forti, S. (2010). Prototyping a Personal Health Record Taking Social and Usability Perspectives into Account. In: Kostkova, P. (eds) Electronic Healthcare. eHealth 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_7
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