Overview
- According to the Pew Foundation’s "Internet in American Life Study," over 60 million Americans per year use the Internet to search for health information. All those concerned with healthcare and how to obtain personally relevant medical information form a large additional target group
- Many Medical Informatics programs–both in the United States and abroad–include a course in Consumer Health Informatics as part of their curriculum. This book, designed for use in a classroom, will be the first textbook dedicated solely to the specific concerns of consumer health informatics
- Consumer Health Informatics is an interactive text; filled with case studies and discussion questions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Health Informatics (HI)
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About this book
Edited by five leaders in the field of health informatics, Consumer Health Informatics explores all aspects of this evolving science. This comprehensive volume will be an indispensable tool for both professionals and students as it details the broad scope of consumer health informatics and its impact on today's progressive and ever-changing world of health care. The inclusion of several case studies serves to examine pertinent topics, namely computer-based information for cancer; National Library of Medicine initiatives; and web-based patient preferences and utilities. Designed for use by medical IT specialists, physicians, nurses, healthcare providers, and professors and students of medical informatics, the book's chapter highlights include patient empowerment; frameworks and models for health behavior change and patient education; patient to patient communication; patient to provider communication; privacy and confidentiality; ethical issues; evaluation methods, and more.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Consumer Health Informatics
Book Subtitle: Informing Consumers and Improving Health Care
Editors: Deborah Lewis, Gunther Eysenbach, Rita Kukafka, P. Zoë Stavri, Holly B. Jimison
Series Title: Health Informatics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27652-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-23991-0Published: 22 March 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2021-8Published: 01 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-27652-6Published: 30 March 2006
Series ISSN: 1431-1917
Series E-ISSN: 2197-3741
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations
Topics: Health Informatics