| Summary: | The number of individuals who suffer from chronic disease continues to increase worldwide (WHO, 2015). Health awareness together with the improvement in living conditions and treatment has increased the life expectancy of people suffers from chronic disease; nevertheless without efficient health management and monitoring, the quality of life is decreased (Whitehead, Seaton, 2016). Progressive growth in computer-mediated technologies such as social networking, smartphones and medical applications provide a useful platform for self-health management and awareness. Towards empowering people in practicing self-health management, individuals who suffers from chronic disease need to have access to timely information, advice, assessment and treatment from medical practitioners in order for them to manage their long-term illnesses conditions systematically (Zoffmann et al. 2016). Medical practitioners play an important role in empowering self-health management by giving guidance, monitoring adverse events and identify areas for improvement while giving patients independently self-management their health (Whitehead, Seaton, 2016, Smith et. al, 2016). Through computer-mediated technologies, systematic intervention from medical practitioners and community is feasible thus improving quality of life for individuals (Lorig et. al., 2016).
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