Description

The collective monograph "Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Person-Centered

Healthcare" establishes a dialog among the medical and intelligent system domains

for igniting transition toward a sustainable and cost-effective health care, driven by

advanced technologies. The Person-Centered Care (PCC) conceptual background of

healthcare positions a person in the center of a healthcare system, instead of defining

a patient as a set of diagnoses and treatment episodes. The PCC-based conceptual

background triggers enhanced application of Artificial Intelligence (AI), as it

dissolves the limits of processing traditional medical data records. The ambition of

taking care of a person health by knowing life conditions, values, and expectations

for nurturing own health adds new dimensions for making PCC operational.

The book discusses ability of intelligent healthcare system to monitor person

health and improve quality of life. The monograph consists of three parts.

Part I discusses conceptual background of healthcare system, identifying major

differences in required knowledge and linking to its sources while applying patient- or

person- oriented frameworks of care. The extensive analysis and conceptualization of

healthcare systems characterizes context for implementing AI approach for research

and application of AI technologies.

Chapter 1 analyzes theoretical backgrounds of health care, it positions the personcentered

care among the theoretical concepts of health care, shaping lifetime relationships

among people and the medical institutions. The PCC concept suggests technological

innovations and changes in providing healthcare services due to new requirements

for inter-professional collaboration, application of scenario-based simulations

and gaming for training of professionals at the healthcare institutions and redesigning

their processes.

Chapter 2 defines the operational considerations of PCC and introduces the

specific routines for its implementation based of the analysis of person narratives,

negotiating and building healthcare plans, and linking to relevant documents

influencing and characterizing person health.

Chapter 3 provides design and evaluation considerations for Person-Centred Care

Implementation. It covers organizational process design for its implementation,

applying intelligent technologies for processing information emanating from the PCC operational routines. The measures, indicators, and methods for valuing health

care and its effects are researched.

Chapter 4 discusses the customization forPCCintervention in a healthcare domain

of pharmacy. It introduces the concept of PCC within pharmaceutical care delivery,

explores its role as a part of multidisciplinary health services delivery teams. The role

of health literacy, e-pharmacy service, and tele-pharmacy for implementing PCC is

explored.

Part II provides research of efficiency evaluation, decision-making, and sustainability

in person-centered health care.

Chapter 5 researches concept and models of shared decision-making as a framework

of PCC. It focuses on multi-criteria decision-making techniques in healthcare

settings. The ethical and practical considerations of shared decision-making in PCC

and sensitive data emanating from patient narratives creates specific conditions and

barriers for its implementation technologies.