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Title Consumer health informatics : informing consumers and improving health care / Deborah Lewis [and others], editors ; with a foreword by Warner V. Slack
Published New York, NY : Springer, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 258 pages) : illustrations
Series Health informatics
Health informatics.
Contents Consumer health informatics / Deborah Lewis, Betty L. Chang, Charles P. Friedman -- Empowered consumers / Patricia Flatley Brennan and Charles Safran -- Tailored health communication / Rita Kukafka -- Design and evaluation of consumer health information web sites / Gunther Eysenbach -- Information delivery methods / James H. Harrison, Jr. -- Delivery of online learning for healthcare consumers / Deborah Lewis -- Qualitative evaluation in consumer health informatics / Bonnie Kaplan -- Patient-to-patient communication: support groups and virtual communities / Gunther Eysenbach -- Electronic patient-centered communication: e-mail and other e-ways to communicate clinically / Daniel Z. Sands -- Consumer health vocabulary / Catherine Arnott Smith and P. Zoë Stavri
Disability informatics / Richard Appleyard -- Ethical issues in consumer health informatics / Holly B. Jimison -- Social informatics and consumer health / Steve Sawyer -- Security of healthcare information systems / Roy Schoenberg -- The National Library of Medicine reaches out to consumers / Joyce E.B. Backus and Eve-Marie Lacroix -- Baby CareLink: collaborative tools to support families / Charles Safran and Denise Goldsmith -- CHOICEs: patients as participants in shared care planning at the point of care / Cornelia M. Ruland -- MedCERTAIN/MedCIRCLE: using semantic web technologies for quality management of health information on the web / Gunther Eysenbach -- The MI-HEART Project / Rita Kukafka, Yves A. Lussier, and James J. Cimino -- CHESS: 10 years of research and development in consumer health informatics for broad populations, including the underserved / David H. Gustafson [and others]
Summary Spurred by the impact consumer health informatics has had on patients and healthcare providers, this volume details aspects of this science, namely patient empowerment, patient to provider communication, ethics, and security and confidentiality. It serves as a useful tool for medical informaticians, healthcare providers, professors, and students
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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In Springer e-books
Subject Medical informatics.
Internet in medicine.
Telecommunication in medicine.
Medical telematics.
Patient participation.
Medical Informatics
Public Health Informatics
Internet
Patient Participation
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Biomedical.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Allied Health Services -- Medical Technology.
MEDICAL -- Biotechnology.
MEDICAL -- Lasers in Medicine.
Internet in medicine.
Telecommunication in medicine.
Medical telematics.
Medical informatics.
Internet.
Patient Participation.
Public Health Informatics.
Patient participation
Internet in medicine
Medical informatics
Medical telematics
Telecommunication in medicine
Gesundheitsinformationssystem
Verbraucherinformation
Form Electronic book
Author Lewis, Deborah, EdD.
ISBN 9780387276526
0387276521
038723991X
9780387239910
9786610337415
6610337411