Chapter 12: Consumer Health Informatics

Chapter 12 discusses the important role patients play in healthcare to include recent technologies that support their involvement. Sections include: Introduction, Definitions, Personal Health Records, Patient engagement, Patient-clinician electronic communication, Efficacy of Consumer Health Informatics (CHI), CHI and healthcare reform

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Publication Date: Feb 11, 2014
Language: English
Category: Science & Medicine
Copyright: All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors: By (author): M. Chris Gibbons, By (author): Robert E. Hoyt, By (author): Yahya Shaihk, By (author): William R. Hersh

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Consumer Health Informatics Patient Portals Personal Health Records Electronic Visits

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About Robert E Hoyt and David Patrishkoff

Robert (Bob) Hoyt MD FACP has practiced internal medicine for over 35 years both in private practice and the military. He uses his clinical and medical research experience to critically analyze informatics literature. He along with his wife Ann Yoshihashi MD, created the first edition of the textbook in 2007 and the textbook is now in its seventh edition. Since 2018 he has focused on data science education, especially for clinicians. David Patrishkoff MS LSSMBB is the co-editor and co-author of No Code Data Science. He has extensive experience with statistics and data science in multiple industries. Further information about him and the textbook can be found at https://www.nocodedatascience.net Dr. William Hersh (OHSU) is the new co-editor for the seventh edition. Dr. Hersh is Professor and Chair of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology at OHSU. He has a long history of lecturing and publishing in informatics. He is now the author of multiple chapters in the seventh edition. The link below will take you to his blog Informatics Professor. Dr. Hersh launched the eighth edition of Health Informatics: Practical Guide which is offered also through Lulu. Bob Muenchen MS PSAT is the new Co-Editor of Introduction to Biomedical Data Science. He is an ASA-accredited professional statistician, the author of R for SAS and SPSS Users, and co-author of R for Stata Users. He is also the creator of r4stats.com. See his bio in the below link.

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