UPA ha fet públic que aquest 2007, el Dia Mundial de la Usabilitat serà el 8 de novembre i tindrà un focus especial en assistència sanità ria.
De la nota de premsa:
“The importance of user-centered design in healthcare is truly about life and death” noted Elizabeth Rosenzweig, Founder and Director of World Usability Day. “Whether it’s new medical devices or technologies; drug research, approval or delivery; patient forms or medical record sharing; emergency disaster planning or increasing the functionality of hospitals and everyday healthcare delivery, everyone is effected in some way by the intersection of usability and healthcare. There are many commonalities, yet each region of the world faces its own set of unique challenges. We believe that focusing World Usability Day 2007 on healthcare will create a stronger awareness of these issues and lead to initiatives that have long term impact on the quality of everyone’s life.”
Les relacions de la tecnologia amb l’assistència sanitaria cada cop interessen més, i són objecte d’estudi i preocupació. La tecnologia està més present a l’à mbit de la salut i nous dispositius proporcionen maneres diferents d’assistència. Això proporciona noves situacions d’ús, amb unes necessitats molt especÃfiques, que han de ser dissenyades i avaluades.
En aquesta lÃnia, ara fa uns mesos es va celebrar Pervasive Healthcare, la primera conferencia internacional sobre Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare.
Ja està publicat el call for papers per la conferència del 2008.
Pervasive healthcare is an emerging research discipline, focusing on the development and application of pervasive and ubiquitous computing technology for healthcare and wellness. Pervasive healthcare seeks to respond to pressures towards healthcare system, arising from a number of factors, including the increased incidence of life-style related and chronic diseases, emerging consumerism in healthcare, need for empowering patients and relatives for self-care and management of their health, and need to provide seamless access for health care services, independent of time and place.
Pervasive healthcare may be defined from two perspectives. First, it is the development and application of pervasive computing (or ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence) technologies for healthcare, health and wellness management. Second, it seeks to make healthcare available to anyone, anytime, and anywhere by removing location, time and other restraints while increasing both the coverage and quality of healthcare.
