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Consumer Health Informatics

Informing Consumers and Improving Health Care

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Editors:
  1. Deborah Lewis

    1. Nursing Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, USA

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  2. Gunther Eysenbach

    1. Centre for Global eHealth Innovation Division of Medical Decision Making and Health Care Research, Toronto General Research Institute of the UHN, USA
      Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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  3. Rita Kukafka

    1. Mailman School of Public Health, Division of Sociomedical Sciences, Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, USA

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  4. P. Zoë Stavri

    1. Oregon Health & Science University, USA
      Health Sciences Informatics, SOM, JHU, Chambersburg, USA

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  5. Holly B. Jimison

    1. KP Center for Health Research, USA
      Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA

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  • 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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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Consumer Health Informatics

    • Deborah Lewis, Betty L. Chang, Charles P. Friedman
    Pages 1-7

  3. Empowered Consumers

    • Patricia Flatley Brennan, Charles Safran
    Pages 8-21

  4. Tailored Health Communication

    • Rita Kukafka
    Pages 22-33

  5. Design and Evaluation of Consumer Health Information Web Sites

    • Gunther Eysenbach
    Pages 34-60

  6. Information Delivery Methods

    • James H. Harrison Jr.
    Pages 61-70

  7. Delivery of Online Learning for Healthcare Consumers

    • Deborah Lewis
    Pages 71-84

  8. Qualitative Evaluation in Consumer Health Informatics

    • Bonnie Kaplan
    Pages 85-96

  9. Patient-to-Patient Communication: Support Groups and Virtual Communities

    • Gunther Eysenbach
    Pages 97-106

  10. Electronic Patient-Centered Communication: E-Mail and Other E-Ways to Communicate Clinically

    • Daniel Z. Sands
    Pages 107-121

  11. Consumer Health Vocabulary

    • Catherine Arnott Smith, P. Zoë Stavri
    Pages 122-128

  12. Disability Informatics

    • Richard Appleyard
    Pages 129-142

  13. Ethical Issues in Consumer Health Informatics

    • Holly B. Jimison
    Pages 143-149

  14. Social Informatics and Consumer Health

    • Steve Sawyer
    Pages 150-161

  15. Security of Healthcare Information Systems

    • Roy Schoenberg
    Pages 162-187

  16. The National Library of Medicine Reaches Out to Consumers

    • Joyce E.B. Backus, Eve-Marie Lacroix
    Pages 188-198

  17. Baby CareLink: Collaborative Tools to Support Families

    • Charles Safran, Denise Goldsmith
    Pages 199-207

  18. CHOICEs: Patients as Participants in Shared Care Planning at the Point of Care

    • Cornelia M. Ruland
    Pages 208-216

  19. MedCERTAIN/MedCIRCLE: Using Semantic Web Technologies for Quality Management of Health Information on the Web

    • Gunther Eysenbach
    Pages 217-226

  20. The MI-HEART Project

    • Rita Kukafka, Yves A. Lussier, James J. Cimino
    Pages 227-238
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Nursing Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pittsburgh, USA

    Deborah Lewis

  • Centre for Global eHealth Innovation Division of Medical Decision Making and Health Care Research, Toronto General Research Institute of the UHN, USA

    Gunther Eysenbach

  • Department of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Gunther Eysenbach

  • Mailman School of Public Health, Division of Sociomedical Sciences, Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, USA

    Rita Kukafka

  • Oregon Health & Science University, USA

    P. Zoë Stavri

  • Health Sciences Informatics, SOM, JHU, Chambersburg, USA

    P. Zoë Stavri

  • KP Center for Health Research, USA

    Holly B. Jimison

  • Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA

    Holly B. Jimison

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

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