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.
