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Users' experiences
A democratization and user orientation in health services has led to a relationship between provider and patient, in a greater extent, based on cooperation, participation and shared responsibility.
Patients' Rights Act stipulates that there should be an interaction between patient and provider in the treatment.
User oriented
The Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine strives for user participation in all development work related to patients. We define users as an important resource in our research.
Here, we present users' own experiences with telemedicine services that they have been involved in developing and/or testing.
Home-dialysis
- If I couldn't get my dialysis at home, I would have been spending my days in the hospital instead of in the office. But I have to be sure that I can get hold of people at the hospital if needed, says Marit Halvorsen.
Control with a click
By sending questions and digital pictures to dermatologist Thomas Schopf at the University Hospital of North Norway (UNN), Bodil Stormo in Gratangen can get advice when her son Vebjørn (8) is afflicted with troublesome eczema outbreaks."It gave me a boost throughout the autumn"
Breathing is a struggle, and it costs her an enormous effort to do things that the rest of us manage in a moment. Karin Ludvigsen lives with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but telemedicine made her everyday life easier.