Consumer Health Informatics
Informing Consumers and Improving Health Care
Published on 1. December 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXII, 258 pages
978-1-4419-2021-8 (ISBN)
Description
Spurred by the impact consumer health informatics has had on patients
and healthcare providers, this comprehensive volume details all
aspects of this emerging science, namely patient empowerment, patient
to provider communication, ethics, and security and confidentiality.
Edited by five leaders in the field, this book will be an
indispensable tool for medical informaticians, healthcare providers,
professors, and students.
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
28 s/w Abbildungen
XXII, 258 p. 28 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4419-2021-8 (9781441920218)
DOI
10.1007/0-387-27652-1
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
Deborah Lewis | Gunther Eysenbach | Rita Kukafka
Consumer Health Informatics
Informing Consumers and Improving Health Care
Book
03/2005
Springer
€106.99
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Content
Consumer Health Informatics.- Empowered Consumers.- Tailored Health Communication.- Design and Evaluation of Consumer Health Information Web Sites.- Information Delivery Methods.- Delivery of Online Learning for Healthcare Consumers.- Qualitative Evaluation in Consumer Health Informatics.- Patient-to-Patient Communication: Support Groups and Virtual Communities.- Electronic Patient-Centered Communication: E-Mail and Other E-Ways to Communicate Clinically.- Consumer Health Vocabulary.- Disability Informatics.- Ethical Issues in Consumer Health Informatics.- Social Informatics and Consumer Health.- Security of Healthcare Information Systems.- The National Library of Medicine Reaches Out to Consumers.- Baby CareLink: Collaborative Tools to Support Families.- CHOICEs: Patients as Participants in Shared Care Planning at the Point of Care.- MedCERTAIN/MedCIRCLE: Using Semantic Web Technologies for Quality Management of Health Information on the Web.- The MI-HEART Project.- CHESS: 10 Years of Research and Development in Consumer Health Informatics for Broad Populations, Including the Underserved.