Workshop on Patient Empowerment: A Transdisciplinary Informatics-Based Approach

本次研讨会的目的是以跨学科的方式探索个体模型，他或她的社会网络，以及来自心理学，社会学，决策科学，经济学的社会决策，如何应用于创建智能应用程序，赋予患者权力。赋予患者和健康个体权力是个体化医疗的一个关键方面，包括自我效能感和自我管理行为改变的概念，并得到医疗保健提供者和支付者的支持。技术在患者赋权方面发挥着作用，但如果通过以科学为基础、理论驱动的系统在内部实施，解决患者在自身和整个卫生系统中面临的赋权障碍，技术将取得最大成功。为了实现这一点，智能系统需要有用的、可计算的患者推理模型以及他们的社会关系和社会网络。讲习班的重点是查明赋予权力的关键问题，特别强调联网和信息技术在赋予权力过程中的作用。预期这次讲习班的结果将对赋予个人权力的实际能力以及对赋予权力过程的基本理解产生重大影响。

The objective of this workshop is to explore in a transdisciplinary fashion how models of the individual, his or her social network, and of societal decision making derived from psychology, sociology, decision sciences, economics, can be applied to create intelligent applications that empower patients. Empowerment of patients and healthy individuals is a critical aspect of individualized medicine and includes concepts of self-efficacy and self managed behavioral change, supported by healthcare providers and payers. Technology plays a role in patient empowerment but will be most successful if implemented within through scientifically based, theory-driven systems that address the barriers that patients face to empowerment within themselves and across the health system. To achieve this, intelligent systems need useful, computable models of patients reasoning and their social relationships and social networks. The workshop is focused on identifying the key questions underlying empowerment with a particular emphasis on the role of networking and information technology in the empowering processes. The results of this workshop are expected to have significant impact on the practical ability to empower individuals as well as on fundamental understanding of the empowerment process.