Dr Kira Oberschmidt: Active involvement of stakeholders in eHealth Action Research
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One of my supervisors used to say, that one way to look at the impact one can have in an academic life is to look at the PhD students one…
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STRIDER: new project to improve mobility of stroke survivors
In May we started a new Eurostars project called STRIDER together with two partners: Elitac Wearables (Utrecht, The Netherlands) and cereneo foundation (Vitznau, Switzerland). What is our goal and why…
Exploring Human-Centered AI in Healthcare – Workshop at ECSCW 2022
Last week the annual European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) took place in Coimbra, Portugal. This annual conference focuses on practice-centred computing and the design of cooperation technologies and…
Post PhD Life: Travel adventures, a new job and a new home
It has been a long time since I last wrote on this blog. A lot has happened since I finished my PhD end of 2018 and before I blog on…
Erwartungen und Erfahrungen mit für Patienten zugängliche elektronischen Gesundheitsakten (Kurzfassung meiner Dissertation)
Seit 2012 können Patienten in der schwedischen Region Uppsala über das Internet auf ihre elektronischen Gesundheitsakten zugreifen. Die Einführung des eHealth-Dienstes wurde von Ärzten und medizinischem Fachpersonal stark kritisiert und…
Philips Future Health Index 2018 released
Last July, I was approached by someone from the Philips team in London that works on the Future Health Index program. Previously they launched the first part of the 2018 Future Health…
Workshop at Uppsala Health Summit 2018: Using Data for Better Cancer Treatments
The international Uppsala Health Summit is an annual meeting for dialogue on challenges for health and healthcare. The summit is a collaborative effort between eleven Swedish public and not-for-profit partners,…
Patients Reading Their Medical Records: Does it Increase or Decrease Anxiety?
The opportunity for patients to read their medical records through patient portals becomes more and more common. In a previous post, I wrote about the discussion around the right timing:…
Patients’ Access to Their Records: What is the Right Timing?
This week I attended the Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) conference in Gothenburg, which took place together with the Swedish eHealth conference Vitalis. Most of the talks at Vitalis were given…
Behaviour Change, Social Practice Theory, and Learned Helplessness
Last year, I attended the eHealth summer school, which was sponsored by EIT Health and ACM SIGCHI, the special interest group of human-computer interaction (HCI). The summer school was divided in…