Engineering a virtual community for breast cancer patients

Author: Arnold Yvonne   Daum Miriam   Krcmar Helmut  

Publisher: Inderscience Publishers

ISSN: 1477-8394

Source: International Journal of Web Based Communities, Vol.1, Iss.2, 2005-01, pp. : 150-162

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Abstract

There are several challenges in the field of community engineering in the health care domain: to achieve the greatest congruency between the patients' needs and the services of the platform, potential users need to get involved in the development process and an evaluation of the conceptualised product is necessary.