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-aware remote 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 readingsAn
organizing vision perspective for developing and adopting e-health solutionsAn 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.
