Research Catalog

Title

Consumer health informatics : informing consumers and improving health care / Deborah Lewis ... [et al.]., editors ; with a foreword by Warner V. Slack.

Publication

New York, NY : Springer, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lewis, Deborah, EdD.

Description

xxi, 258 p. : ill.

Series Statement

Health informatics

Subject

• Medical informatics
• Internet in medicine
• Telecommunication in medicine
• Medical telematics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Consumer health informatics / D. Lewis, B.L. Chang, C.P. Friedman. -- Empower consumers / P.F. Brennan, C. Safran. -- Tailored health communication / R. Kukafka. -- Design and evaluation of consumer health information web sites / G. Eysenbach. -- Information delivery methods / J.H. Harrison, Jr. -- Delivery of online learning for healthcare consumers / D. Lewis. -- Qualitative evaluation in consumer health informatics / B. Kaplan. -- Patient-to-patient communication: support groups and virtual communities / G. Eysenbach. -- Electronic patient-centered communication: e-mail and other e-ways to communicate clinically / D.Z. Sands. -- Consumer health vocabulary / C.A. Smith, P.Z. Stavri. -- Disability informatics / R. Appleyard. -- Ethical issues in consumer health informatics / H.B. Jimison. -- Social informatics and consumer health / S. Sawyer. -- Security of healthcare information systems / R. Schoenberg. -- The National Library of Medicine reaches out to consumers / J.E.B. BAckus, E.M. Lacroix. -- Baby CareLink: collaborative tools to support families / C. Safran, D. Goldsmith. -- CHOICEs: patients as participants in shared care planning at the point of care / C.M. Ruland. -- MedCERTAIN/MedCIRCLE: using semantic web technologies for quality management of health information on the web / G. Eysenbach. -- The MI-HEART Project / R. Kukafka, Y.A. Lussier, J.J. Cimino. -- 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.

Call Number

JBE 05-1100

ISBN

038723991X (alk. paper)

OCLC

60413694

Title

Consumer health informatics : informing consumers and improving health care / Deborah Lewis ... [et al.]., editors ; with a foreword by Warner V. Slack.

Imprint

New York, NY : Springer, c2005.

Series

Health informatics

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lewis, Deborah, EdD.

Research Call Number

JBE 05-1100