Patient 2.0 empowerment

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Abstract—The authors want to show the implication of interactive ICT on patient empowerment, through an overview of some of the key aspects- EHR, telecare and patient networks- all this within the context of recent Health 2.0 developments. Definitions will be given of both Health 2.0 and Patient 2.0 Empowerment. I. INTRODUCTION: PATIENT EMPOWERMENT For years patient empowerment has been subject of thinking and research. First discussions started in the mid 1990s [1]. As recently as 2004, Salmon and Hall published a very interesting study on the subject [2] from which we give