Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Journal of Medical Systems
Published in: Journal of Medical Systems 9/2015

01-09-2015 | Systems-Level Quality Improvement

Analytic Hierarchy Process to Define the Most Important Factors and Related Technologies for Empowering Elderly People in Taking an Active Role in their Health

Authors: G. Fico, E. Gaeta, M. T. Arredondo, L. Pecchia

Published in: Journal of Medical Systems | Issue 9/2015

Login to get access

Abstract

Successful management of health conditions in older population is determined by strategic involvement of a professional team of careers and by empowering patients and their caregivers to take over a central role and responsibility in the daily management of condition. Identifying, structuring and ranking the most important needs related to these aspects could pave the way for improved strategies in designing systems and technological solutions supporting user empowerment. This paper presents the preliminary results of a study aiming to elicit these needs. Healthcare professionals, working together in the European and Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA) initiative, have defined a set of needs and factors that have been organized in two hierarchies around the concepts of patient activation and proactive and prepared care team, defined in the Chronic Care Model. The two hierarchies have been mapped, by a team of experts in computer science, with technologies and solutions that could facilitate the achievement of the identified needs.
Literature
1.
Wagner, E. H., et al., Improving chronic illness care: translating evidence into action. Health. Aff. 20:64–78, 2001.
2.
Martha M. Funnell, Robert M. Anderson, “Influencing Self-Management: From Compliance to Collaboration”, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Book: Contemporary Endocrinology, pp 455–466. ISBN: 978-1-60327-043-4, 2008.
3.
Graham Barr, M., Celli, B., Mannino, D., Petty, Rennard, S., Sciurba, F., Stoller, J., Thomashow, B., and Turino, G., Comorbidities, Patient Knowledge, and Disease Management in a National Sample of Patients with COPD. The American Journal of Medicine 122(4):348–355, 2009.CrossRefPubMed
4.
WHO. Adherence to Long-Term Therapies. Evidence for Action. Geneva: WHO; 2003. Available from: http://​who.​int. Accessed June 17, 2014.
5.
Wolff JL, Starfield B, Anderson G. “Prevalence, expenditures, and complications of multiple chronic conditions in the elderly”. Arch Intern Med 162269–2276, 2002.
6.
7.
Wagner E. Et al., the Milbank Quarterly, “Organizing Care for Patients with Chronic Illness”, Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 511–544, 1996.
8.
Fico, G., Arredondo, M. T., Moreno, E. G., de Retana García, L. O., Serrano-Gil, M., Cornally, N., & Molloy, W. (2014). Analytic Hierarchy Process for Determining the Most Important Factors to Empower Elderly People in Taking an Active Role in Their Health: Study Design. In Ambient Assisted Living and Daily Activities (pp. 390–393). Springer International Publishing.
9.
Saaty, T. L., A scaling method for priorities in hierarchical structures. Journal of Mathematical Psychology 15:8, 1977.CrossRef
10.
Pecchia, L., et al., User needs elicitation via analytic hierarchy process (AHP). A case study on a Computed Tomography (CT) scanner. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 13:2, 2013.PubMedCentralCrossRefPubMed
11.
Fico, G., Cancela, J., Arredondo, M. T., Dagliati, A., Sacchi, L., Segagni, D., Martinez-Milana, A., Fernandez-Llatas, C., Traver, V.and Cobelli, C. (2015, January). User Requirements for Incorporating Diabetes Modeling Techniques in Disease Management Tools. In 6th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering. IFMBE Proceedings Volume 45, 2015, pp 992–995. Springer International Publishing.
12.
Cancela J, Fico G, Pastorino M., Arredondo, M.T. Hierarchy Definition for the Evaluation of a Telehealth System for Parkinson’s Disease Management. In 6th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering. IFMBE Proceedings Volume 45, 2015, pp 1000–1003. Springer International Publishing.
13.
Metadata
Title
Analytic Hierarchy Process to Define the Most Important Factors and Related Technologies for Empowering Elderly People in Taking an Active Role in their Health
Authors
G. Fico
E. Gaeta
M. T. Arredondo
L. Pecchia
Publication date
01-09-2015
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Medical Systems / Issue 9/2015
Print ISSN: 0148-5598
Electronic ISSN: 1573-689X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-015-0300-9

Other articles of this Issue 9/2015

Journal of Medical Systems 9/2015 Go to the issue

Patient Facing Systems

Data-Centric Routing for Intra Wireless Body Sensor Networks

Patient Facing Systems

On the Effect of Previous Technological Experience on the Usability of a Virtual Rehabilitation Tool for the Physical Activation and Cognitive Stimulation of Elders

Systems-Level Quality Improvement

Strategies for Optimal MAC Parameters Tuning in IEEE 802.15.6 Wearable Wireless Sensor Networks

Transactional Processing Systems

Personalized Orthodontic Accurate Tooth Arrangement System with Complete Teeth Model

Mobile Systems

Perioperative Smartphone Apps and Devices for Patient-Centered Care

Systems-Level Quality Improvement

Towards an Encompassing Maturity Model for the Management of Hospital Information Systems