Special Section: Personal Health and Consumer Informatics

Summary Objectives: To provide an overview of outstanding current research conducted in Education and Consumer Informatics. Method: Synopsis of the articles on education and consumer health informatics published in 2012 and selected for the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2013. Results: Architecture of monitoring or telehealth information systems for patients with chronic disease must include wireless devices to aid in the collection of personal data. Data acquisition technologies have an impact on patients' willingness to participate in telehealth programmes. Patients are more likely to prefer mobile applications over web-based applications. Social media is widely used by clinicians. Especially younger clinicians use it for personal purposes and for reference materials retrieval. Questions remain on optimal training requirements and on the effects on clinician behavior and on patient outcomes. A high level of e-Health literacy by patients will promote increased adoption and utilization of personal health records. Conclusion: The selected articles highlight the need for training of clinicians to become aware of existing telehealth systems, in order to correctly inform and guide patients to take part in telehealth systems and adopt personal healthcare records (PHR).

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Introduction to the Special Section on Biomedical Devices for Personal Health Applications

Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering in China ◽

10.1007/s11465-011-0210-6 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Chen I-Ming

Keyword(s):

Special Section ◽

Personal Health ◽

Biomedical Devices ◽

Health Applications

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Personal Health and Consumer Informatics

Yearbook of Medical Informatics ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1639426 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 21 (01) ◽

pp. 25-29

Author(s):

A. Guardia ◽

B. C. Boyer ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Health Informatics ◽

Research Articles ◽

Personal Health ◽

The Social ◽

Excellent Research ◽

Consumer Informatics ◽

Medical Healthcare ◽

Selection Of

SummaryTo summarize current outstanding research in the field of Personal Health and Consumers Informatics.A selection of excellent research articles published in 2011 in the field of Personal Health Informatics and Consumer Informatics.This selection of articles shows that Personal Health Informatics is changing. Indeed, the different solutions tended to the doctors and their interaction, but also tended to the patient in order for him to be more active in his own medical healthcare. The consumer section highlights the development of the social network and the possible limitations.

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