Contemporary Consumer Health Informatics

1. Front Matter

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2. Reliability of Qualitative Data Using Text Analysis: A Queensland Health Case Study

   • Raj Gururajan, Kevin Clark, Susan Moller, Prema Sankaran, Abdul Hafeez Baig, Nilmini Wickramasinghe et al.

   Pages 1-13

3. Exercise, Diet Counselling, and Management for the Adults with Diabetes Mellitus: An Indian Case Study

   • Dharnini Pathy, Raj Gururajan, Abdul Hafeez-Baig, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Rashmi Gururajan

   Pages 15-52

4. Dementia Monitoring with Artificial Intelligence

   • Andreas Hamper, Isabella Eigner

   Pages 53-71

5. Tailored Physical Activity Promotion with Context-Based Mobile Applications

   • Andreas Hamper

   Pages 73-89

6. A Multi-centred Empirical Study to Measure and Validate User Satisfaction with Hospital Information Services in Australia and Germany

   • Anke Simon, Bill Davey, Bettina Flaiz, Vass Karpathiou, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

   Pages 91-100

7. Social Media in Health Care

   • Nima Kordzadeh

   Pages 101-123

8. Satisfaction with Health Informatics System Characteristics and Their Effect on Openness to Frequent Use

   • Karoly Bozan, Pratim Datta

   Pages 125-152

9. A Context-Aware Remote Health Monitoring Service for Improved Patient Care

   • Christopher Doss, Mohd Anwar, Nadine Manjaro

   Pages 153-167

10. Evaluating NDF-RT’s Comprehensiveness as a Drugs Classification Standard: Drug Interaction Checker

    • Awatif Alotaibi, Mona Alkhattabi

    Pages 169-198

11. Accessibility Issues in Interoperable Sharing of Electronic Health Records: Physician’s Perspective

    • Shalini Bhartiya, Deepti Mehrotra

    Pages 199-218

12. Health Information Technology to Support the Delivery of Chinese Medicine: The Design of a Chinese Medicine Clinic System

    • Catherine Han Lin, Angela Wei Hong Yang, Siddhi Pittayachawan, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

    Pages 219-233

13. The Prevalence of Social Question Answering in Health-Care Social Media

    • Blooma John, Raj Gururajan, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

    Pages 235-251

14. Translating Social Comparison Elements into a Mobile Solution to Support Weight Loss

    • Farruch Kouliev, Carolin Durst, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

    Pages 253-269

15. An Organizing Vision Perspective for Developing and Adopting e-Health Solutions

    • Indrit Troshani, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

    Pages 271-281

16. Leveraging the Power of e-Health to Achieve Healthcare Outcomes

    • Indrit Troshani, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

    Pages 283-295

17. Remote Monitoring and Mobile Apps

    • Ruwini Edirisinghe, Andrew Stranieri, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

    Pages 297-318

18. Mobile Nursing

    • Jianqiu Kou, Nilmini Wickramasinghe

    Pages 319-331

19. An Ontology of Consumer Health Informatics

    • Arkalgud Ramaprasad, Thant Syn

    Pages 333-346

20. The Acceptance of Nursing Information Systems: An Analysis Using UTAUT

    • Lemai Nguyen, Peter Haddad, Hoda Moghimi, Imran Muhammad, Kimberley Coleman, Bernice Redley et al.

    Pages 347-365

This innovative reference examines how consumer health informatics (CHI) can transform healthcare systems stressed by staffing shortages and budget constraints and challenged by patients taking a more active role in their care. It situates CHI as vital to upgrading healthcare service delivery, detailing the relationship between health information technologies and quality healthcare, and outlining what stakeholders need to learn for health IT systems to function effectively. Wide-ranging content identifies critical issues and answers key questions at the consumer, practitioner, administration, and staff levels, using examples from diverse conditions, countries, technologies, and specialties. In this framework, the benefits of CHI are seen across service domains, from individual patients and consumers to healthcare systems and global health entities.

Included in the coverage:

• Use of video technology in an aged care environment
• A context-awareremote health monitoring service for improved patient care
• Accessibility issues in interoperable sharing of electronic health records: physician’s perspective 
• Managing gestational diabetes with mobile web-based reporting of glucose readings
  
• An organizing vision perspective for developing and adopting e-health solutions
  
• An ontology of consumer health informatics 

Contemporary Consumer Health Informatics combines blueprint and idea book for public health and health informatics students, healthcare professionals, physicians, medical administrators, managers, and IT practitioners.

• CHI
• consumer health
• electronic health records
• health informatics
• information technology and healthcare delivery
• personal health records

• Deakin University and Epworth HealthCare, Kew East, Australia

  Nilmini Wickramasinghe

• The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

  Indrit Troshani

• McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

  Joseph Tan

Prof. Nilmini Wickramasinghe, PhD; MBA; Grad.Dip.Mgt.St.; BSc Amus.A, piano; Amus.A, violin; has a well-recognised research record in the field of healthcare and IT/IS. Her expertise is in the strategic application and management of technology for effecting superior healthcare solutions. She currently is the professor-director of Health Informatics Management at Epworth HealthCare and a professor at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia.



Dr. Indrit Troshani is a senior lecturer in Information Systems at the University of Adelaide Business School in Australia. He holds a PhD from Edith Cowan University (Western Australia) and an MSc (Sunderland, UK). His research interests include adoption and diffusion of network innovations and mobile services in the healthcare and financial services industries. His work has been published in several journals including Information Technology & People, ElectronicMarkets, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, and Industrial Management & Data Systems.


Prof. Joseph Tan specialises in innovative design, implementation, and diffusion of advancing e-technology to improve health services delivery system efficiencies and effectiveness. His research interests cut across multiple disciplines, with emphasis on the application of strategic e-business and e-health models to improve health systems operational efficiencies, individual or group decision effectiveness, and community health behaviours. He teaches health IT project management and special topics in e-health.

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