Consumer health informatics
Subtitle: informing consumers and improving health care
By: Deborah Lewis ... [et al.], editors ; with a foreword by Warner V. Slack.
Contributors: Lewis, Deborah
Series: Health informatics
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Medical informatics; Internet in medicine; Telecommunication in medicine; Medical telematics; Consumer Participation; Delivery of Health Care; Information Systems; Medical Informatics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Consumer health informatics / D. Lewis, B.L. Chang, C.P. Friedman.; title: Empower consumers / P.F. Brennan, C. Safran.; title: Tailored health communication / R. Kukafka.; title: Design and evaluation of consumer health information web sites / G. Eysenbach.; title: Information delivery methods / J.H. Harrison, Jr.; title: Delivery of online learning for healthcare consumers / D. Lewis.; title: Qualitative evaluation in consumer health informatics / B. Kaplan.; title: Patient-to-patient communication: support groups and virtual communities / G. Eysenbach.; title: Electronic patient-centered communication: e-mail and other e-ways to communicate clinically / D.Z. Sands.; title: Consumer health vocabulary / C.A. Smith, P.Z. Stavri.; title: Disability informatics / R. Appleyard.; title: Ethical issues in consumer health informatics / H.B. Jimison.; title: Social informatics and consumer health / S. Sawyer.; title: Security of healthcare information systems / R. Schoenberg.; title: The National Library of Medicine reaches out to consumers / J.E.B. BAckus, E.M. Lacroix.; title: Baby CareLink: collaborative tools to support families / C. Safran, D. Goldsmith.; title: CHOICEs: patients as participants in shared care planning at the point of care / C.M. Ruland.; title: MedCERTAIN/MedCIRCLE: using semantic web technologies for quality management of health information on the web / G. Eysenbach.; title: The MI-HEART Project / R. Kukafka, Y.A. Lussier, J.J. Cimino.; title: CHESS: 10 years of research and development in consumer health informatics for broad populations, including the underserved / D.H. Gustafson, R.P. Hawkins, E.W. Boberg, F. McTavish, B. Owens, M. Wise, H. Herhe, S. Pingree.