This unique collection synthesizes insights and evidence from innovators in consumer
informatics and highlights the technical behavioral social and policy issues driving digital
health today and in the foreseeable future. Consumer Informatics and Digital Health presents
the fundamentals of mobile health reviews the evidence for consumer technology as a driver of
health behavior change and examines user experience and real-world technology design
challenges and successes. Additionally it identifies key considerations for successfully
engaging consumers in their own care considers the ethics of using personal health information
in research and outlines implications for health system redesign. The editors' integrative
systems approach heralds a future of technological advances tempered by best practices drawn
from today's critical policy goals of patient engagement community health promotion and
health equity. Here's the inside view of consumer health informatics and key digital fields
that students and professionals will find inspiring informative and thought-provoking.
Included among the topics:-Healthcare social media for consumer informatics-Understanding
usability accessibility and human-centered design principles-Understanding the fundamentals
of design for motivation and behavior change-Digital tools for parents: innovations in
pediatric urgent care-Behavioral medicine and informatics in the cancer community-Content
strategy: writing for health consumers on the web-Open science and the future of data
analytics-Digital approaches to engage consumers in value-based purchasingConsumer Informatics
and Digital Health takes an expansive view of the fields influencing consumer informatics and
offers practical case-based guidance for a broad range of audiences including students
educators researchers journalists and policymakers interested in biomedical informatics
mobile health information science and population health. It has as much to offer readers in
clinical fields such as medicine nursing and psychology as it does to those engaged in
digital pursuits.
