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Medicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL)

Conceptual Map of the Manual of Accreditation of Healthcare Websites V.2
Ángela Escobar Ubreva*, Javier Ferrero Álvarez-rementería, Begoña Buiza Camacho, Mª Carmen Fernández Bermejo

Objectives This study describes the elements of the manual of accreditation of healthcare websites, of the Health Quality Agency of Andalusia, in its second version. The manual is the reference document of the Healthcare Website Accreditation Program, which responds to institutional commitment of Andalusia (Spain) with the European initiatives to ensure the rights of citizens, starting on the document e-Europe 2002, Quality criteria for web sites related to health, the Commission of the E...

Medicine 2.0'13 (London, UK)

Improving Patient Safety And Empowerment Through The Evaluation of Apps On Health Program Of The Andalusian Health Quality Agency
Javier Ferrero Álvarez-Rementería, Ángela Escobar-Ubreva, Vicente Santana-López, Marta Vázquez-Vázquez*, Habibullah Rodríguez-Contreras

Background The rapid growth of mHealth results in new possibilities of how health services are delivered to patients, opening new horizons through mobile technologies. Health apps enable patient empowerment, and consequently, they become more responsible and aware about their health problems. The number of health apps is in constant increase, counting more than tens of thousands available apps in the different markets. Nevertheless, several studies have found that not always the use of...

Mobile Application for Personalized Patient Surgical Safety Checklists
Marta Vazquez Vazquez*, Manuel Pacheco, Javier Ferrero, Vicente Santana, Habibullah Rodriguez, Angela Escobar

Background The purpose of a safety checklist (in medicine, as in aviation) is to detect a potential error before it leads to harm. The World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist has improved compliance with standards and decreased complications from surgery around the world. Now, the aim is to give the patient this tool to more effectively manage their personal conditions, so this will minimize risks related to surgery Time to explore the possibilities of mobile health apps to ...

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