A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Connected puerperium in Portugal : a digital system for an integrative postpartum care
Authors: Leite Carla V, Shrbaji, Tala Al, Niela-Vilen Hannakaisa, Oliveira Ana Patrícia, Oliveira Rita
Editors: Kommers Piet, Macedo Mário, Peng Guo Chao, Abraham Ajith
Conference name: IADIS International Conference e-Health
Publication year: 2023
Book title : Proceedings of the International Conferences on ICT, Society, and Human Beings 2023, ICT 2023; and e-Health 2023, EH 2023; Connected Smart Cities 2023, CSC 2023; and Big Data Analytics, Data Mining and Computational Intelligence 2023, BigDaCI 2023
First page : 199
Last page: 207
ISBN: 978-989-8704-50-4
Web address : https://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/connected-puerperium-in-portugal-a-digital-system-for-an-integrative-postpartum-care(external)
The goal of this research was to conceptualise a system that answers to an emerging health care need: connecting women during puerperium with different users, namely: midwife, obstetrician, paediatrician, breastfeeding consultant, physical therapist, family nurse and doctor, psychologist, and informal caregiver. Those are the stakeholders, along with her family and the Portuguese Health System, since the implementation of this system could improve women's health and well-being, reduce costs with obstetric, psychiatric and general healthcare, and contribute to the positive after birth experience and breastfeeding rates, since: it enables the communication of women with different users of the system and between them it allows them to upload up to date data/results/exams, accessible by different users who might need it for a customised and integrative diagnosis/treatment and, it is accessible online, allowing women´s constant and physically distant follow-up. The use cases diagram and flows of the system, along with the interface design of a mobile app were created.