An intelligent partner system for improving chronic illness care

Shared Decision Making and Serious Mental Illness

“…Because much of healthcare today has already successfully embraced illness self-management and SDM (Barlow, Sturt & Hearnshaw, 2002; Walker, Swerissen & Belfrage, 2003), demonstrating the relationships among these variables in persons with SMI contributes to understanding the responses and attitudes of clients and to developing a conceptual foundation for ongoing inquiry into the importance and potential impact of SDM in mental health (Thorne, Paterson & Russell, 2003). The ultimate goal of SDM models is to provide providers with relevant data and necessary skills to empower chronically-ill clients with the information and confidence to manage their health wisely (Deutsch & Gergely, 2003). …”

A review of Primary Care Informatics: past progress, present reality, future prospects

“…Implementation of decision support systems, even when integrated with a routinely-used electronic medical record, has not been straightforward, and has not always produced improvement in the quality of either the process of care or clinical outcomes. Most studies have looked at the management of chronic diseases as the most likely to render success [62,63,64] but few have shown major improvement; issues include relevance and accuracy of reminder or alert messages [65], lack of flexibility with patients with comorbidity [66], workflow integration [67], terminology and architecture [68], and interface design [69].…”