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  • Digital health
  • Healthcare systems
  • Patient empowerment

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  • Mobile health (mHealth) apps are increasingly patient-centered, aiming to empower individuals.
  • Challenges like data security, privacy, and accessibility hinder mHealth integration.
  • Current models of individual empowerment in healthcare have limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine existing approaches to individual empowerment in healthcare.
  • To introduce and analyze 'interaction empowerment' as a novel perspective for digital health.
  • To explore how a new interpretation of empowerment can improve mHealth integration.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of individual empowerment in healthcare.
  • Analysis of current mHealth integration challenges.
  • Conceptual framework development for interaction empowerment.

Main Results:

  • Individual empowerment, while valuable, faces significant integration barriers in healthcare.
  • Interaction empowerment offers a new paradigm for intersectoral communication and data sharing.
  • This shift can address limitations of current mHealth approaches.

Conclusions:

  • A redefined concept of empowerment, focusing on interaction, is crucial for successful mHealth integration.
  • Interaction empowerment can facilitate secure data exchange and knowledge sharing.
  • This novel perspective supports the advancement of digital health systems.