E-patient

E-patient

An e-patient is a healthcare consumer who actively engages in their medical care and views themselves as an equal partner with their doctor(s). This involvement includes utilizing new developments such as self-tracking, big data predictive analytics, e-health, mobile health, participatory medical research, e-patient communities, and shared decision making in diagnosis and treatment.From: Diagnosis [2017], The current status of breakthrough devices designation in the United States and innovative medical devices designation in Korea for digital health software [2022]

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Published in Pat Croskerry, Karen S. Cosby, Mark L. Graber, Hardeep Singh, Diagnosis, 2017

Pat Croskerry, Karen S. Cosby, Mark L. Graber, Hardeep Singh

e-patient (and the e-patient movement): a healthcare consumer who fully participates in his medical care and considers himself an equal partner with his doctor(s). The phrase e-patient was first coined by Tom Ferguson, the founder of the Society for Participatory Medicine. An e-patient is equipped, enabled, empowered, and engaged and encouraged to use electronic (and Internet) resources.

The current status of breakthrough devices designation in the United States and innovative medical devices designation in Korea for digital health software

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Published in Expert Review of Medical Devices, 2022

Jae Hyun Woo, Eun Cheol Kim, Sung Min Kim

Digital technologies enable homogenization and storage of significant data using big data analytics or advanced tools and techniques for storing, processing, and analyzing large amounts of data. Digitization in healthcare is facilitated by new technologies contributing to safe and high-quality care [4,5]. It has led to new developments such as self-tracking, big data predictive analytics, e-health, mobile health, participatory medical research, e-patient communities, and shared decision making in diagnosis and treatment [6].

Outpatient appointment scheduling with unpunctual patients

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Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2018

Han Zhu, Youhua (Frank) Chen, Eman Leung, Xing Liu

Denote as the expected service time for type-e patient (). Given that , the cost associated with patient 2 can be expressed as follows.

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