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Via Knowledge is currently involved in the development stage of several health care applications: In diabetes management, automated web site (or portal) development for primary care practitioners, and in patient records. XML is the perfect platform for document related applications and nowhere is this more true than healthcare.
Health care systems are overwhelmed because they lack the mechanisms to communicate with patients other than through patient visits. Many chronic illnesses threaten health service waiting lists because there is inadequate supervision of lifelong therapies.
Insurance companies face mounting bills as the chronically ill pass from the relatively inexpensive primary care sector to expensive hospital care.
Patients are left with increasingly complex health regimes to manage – treatments, diet, and lifestyle combinations that require constant monitoring and effort.
Via Knowledge is working on solutions to these problems, particularly in how information can be redirected to the good of the patient, and to promote patient self-management.
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