Designing Patient educative Web sites for patients, for better understanding of their disease and its management.
Goals of patient education through net
Web sites are designed, incorporating latest in the field of management for a particular disease. e.g. Diabetes, Hypertension, Asthma, Depression, Ischemic heart diseases.
The sites give in-depth knowledge in simple understandable language about the particular disease- etiology, concerned anatomy, long and short term complications and their prevention, guidelines for proper management- including investigations required, treatment guidelines of disease and complications, lifestyle modifications.
This has given excellent results, in form of better patient compliance, and has motivated patients for early diagnosis and prompt treatment of chronic illnesses like Diabetes, Hypertension, Bronchial Asthma, Depression, Thyroid disorders etc.
Net education also helps to educate the rest of the family as to what is happening. -and this is important in India, where it is often the family, which makes decisions regarding medical treatment.