Life Supporting Technologies

Current health care systems in developed countries are called to face up many challenges, principally represented by the aging of population and the resulting rising of chronic diseases. Aspects like prevention, continuity of care, therapy compliance, personalisation of information and patient motivation are the main objectives of such systems, along with the necessity to reach the higher portion of the population as possible. This work shows a usable and accessible Graphical User Interface (GUI) that, applied to a personalised health care information platform, aims at making it accessible and user-friendly to every kind of patient, including people with special needs and with little skills in Information and Communicatio