Robert Eckhoff*, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Salzburg, Austria Manuela Ploessnig, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Salzburg, Austria Track: Research Presentation Topic: Consumer empowerment, patient-physician relationship, and sociotechnical issues Presentation Type: Poster presentation Submission Type: Single Presentation Last modified: 2013-09-25

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The EMPOWER project (2012-2015) develops a Patient Empowerment Framework facilitating the self-management of diabetes patients. This includes personalised services (web-based and mobile) for supporting changing behaviour and services for monitoring of vital, physical, mental parameters as well as physical and lifestyle activities. EMPOWER semantically integrates multiple information sources (EHR/PHR, diabetes guidelines, patterns of daily living) for a shared knowledge model and focuses on a patient-centric perspective that involves both healthcare professionals and patients based on iterative cycles. The services in EMPOWER will embrace semantic interoperability based on health standards such as HL7 IHE profiles and ISO/CEN13606 information models. EMPOWER will be validated in two pilot applications, one in Germany and one in Turkey.