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Patient empowerment with high-tech imaging and biosignal-based procedures – contradiction or challenge? Henning Müller Hospitals & University of Geneva HES-SO//Valais, Switzerland

Images/signals in medicine • Increasing amount of data • Increasing variety of protocols and modalities – Interpretation might even become hard for clinicians • Everything is online – Images in patient record and in articles • Radiologists and other clinicians have same access – Images and videos not perfectly integrated into search • Tools for image and signal search are required – Images and videos are clearer to interpret than lab values, people have more experience in this

Medicine and the web • Many people are afraid to have health data revealed – Trust is important • Information retrieval and also imaging have similar tools for patients and clinicians – New trends come from consumer informatics • Different from 20 years ago – Images and videos can be used to explain information to the patient (currently largely underused) • Clinicians need to know the knowledge sources of their patients – There are risks and potential for empowered patients

Social media • Exchange of data between friends is very liberal – Also for the medical field? Exhibitionism? • Use of visual data is very natural – People know how to handle and use it • People will get organized whether we want it or not – Social medical networks exist – Rare diseases – Blogs, … – Facebook for health • There are risks and possibilities

Conclusions • Linking of information and knowledge sources will continue, semantic information will grow – And this will fully include images, signals and videos • New search tools need to take this into account – Level of trust for the information – Level of technicity for results • Different results for specialists, GPs and patients – Full integration of multimedia • I usually want to know more about my health status – Clinicians needs to accept this request of inforamtion

Questions • ? http://www.khresmoi.eu/ http://medgift.hevs.ch/