{"product_id":"consumer-health-informatics-chapman-hall-crc-healthcare-informatics-series","title":"Consumer Health Informatics (Chapman \u0026 Hall\/CRC Healthcare Informatics Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Consumer Health Informatics (Chapman \u0026amp; Hall\/CRC Healthcare Informatics Series) (Hardcover, 250 pages) – Chapman and Hall\/CRC, 2020. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\"An engaging introduction to an exciting multidisciplinary field where positive impact depends less on technology than on understanding and responding to human motivations, specific information needs, and life constraints.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- Betsy L. Humphreys, former Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book for people who want to design or promote information technology that helps people be more active and informed participants in their healthcare. Topics include patient portals, wearable devices, apps, websites, smart homes, and online communities focused on health.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsumer Healthcare Informatics: Enabling Digital Health for Everyone educates readers in the core concepts of consumer health informatics: participatory healthcare; health and e-health literacy; user-centered design; information retrieval and trusted information resources; and the ethical dimensions of health information and communication technologies. It presents the current state of knowledge and recent developments in the field of consumer health informatics. The discussions address tailoring information to key user groups, including patients, consumers, caregivers, parents, children and young adults, and older adults. For example, apps are considered as not just a rich consumer technology with the promise of empowered personal data management and connectedness to community and healthcare providers, but also a domain rife with concerns for effectiveness, privacy, and security, requiring both designer and user to engage in critical thinking around their choices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book’s unique contribution to the field is its focus on the consumer and patient in the context of their everyday life outside the clinical setting. Discussion of tools and technologies is grounded in this perspective and in a context of real-world use and its implications for design. There is an emphasis on empowerment through participatory and people-centered care.\u003c\/p\u003e  \n\n                                         Editorial Reviews                   Review   \u003cp\u003e“An engaging introduction to an exciting multidisciplinary field where positive impact depends less on technology than on understanding and responding to human motivations, specific information needs, and life constraints”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- Betsy L. Humphreys, former Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew H Tepper, BS(Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Description**\u003cbr\u003eThis book explains how consumers of healthcare can use health informatics and\u003cbr\u003edigital health to take a more active role in their medical care. The first part\u003cbr\u003eexplains that healthcare is changing, allowing patients to take on more\u003cbr\u003eresponsibility for their health, and describes common problems consumers\u003cbr\u003eencounter when looking for information and how consumers can best search for\u003cbr\u003einformation online. The second part goes into specifics about the different\u003cbr\u003edigital health tools consumers can use to take a more active role in their healthcare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Purpose**\u003cbr\u003eThe purpose is to discuss the core concepts of consumer health informatics,\u003cbr\u003eincluding a comprehensive summary of current knowledge and recent developments\u003cbr\u003ein the field. The authors encourage consumers to use informatics to take a more\u003cbr\u003eactive role in their healthcare outside of the clinical setting. These are\u003cbr\u003eworthy objectives considering medicine is shifting away from medical\u003cbr\u003epaternalism and towards patient empowerment; at the same time, digital health\u003cbr\u003eis becoming more accessible and user friendly. These objectives are thoroughly\u003cbr\u003emet in this book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Audience**\u003cbr\u003eThe authors broadly state this book is for people who want to design or promote\u003cbr\u003einformation technology that helps people be more active and informed\u003cbr\u003eparticipants in their healthcare. Additionally, this book may be of interest to\u003cbr\u003einformed patients or to medical providers looking to help their patients take a\u003cbr\u003emore active role in their healthcare. Both authors have a background in health informatics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Features**\u003cbr\u003eThe six chapters in the first part focus on the foundations of consumer health\u003cbr\u003einformatics. This part establishes that there has been a shift to participatory\u003cbr\u003ehealthcare and goes on to explain how consumer health informatics can support\u003cbr\u003ethis shift. This section goes into detail about the best ways to search for\u003cbr\u003etrustworthy and accurate medical information for all types of healthcare\u003cbr\u003econsumers. Each of the five chapters in the second part focuses on a different\u003cbr\u003etool consumers can use to support their healthcare. These tools include\u003cbr\u003epersonal health records and patient portals, apps, smart medical homes, and\u003cbr\u003eonline patient communities. Each chapter explains the current state of the\u003cbr\u003etechnology and how to effectively use it in different scenarios. The book\u003cbr\u003econcludes with a chapter on ethics focusing on direct-to-consumer genetics\u003cbr\u003eproducts, like 23andMe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Assessment**\u003cbr\u003eThis quality book provides a thorough, detailed overview of consumer health\u003cbr\u003einformatics and an introduction to growing digital health technologies\u003cbr\u003eavailable to consumers. While the common theme is to encourage consumers to\u003cbr\u003etake a more active role in their healthcare, the two parts of this book feels\u003cbr\u003elike separate topics: consumer health informatics and digital health products.\u003cbr\u003eNevertheless, this book would be a great resource for someone interested in\u003cbr\u003eeither of these topics. It provides additional value by using many examples of\u003cbr\u003eresources and technologies that have been vetted by the authors. Overall, this\u003cbr\u003ebook has many aspects that make it worth reading by anyone interested in\u003cbr\u003efacilitating patient empowerment or using digital health tools.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-----------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeighted Numerical Score: 89 - 3 Stars\u003c\/p\u003e           About the Author   \u003cp\u003eCatherine Arnott Smith, PhD, is a Professor in the Information School and a Discovery Fellow, Virtual Environments Group, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a former medical librarian who moved into biomedical informatics for her PhD through the Center (now Department) of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh (2002), where she was a National Library of Medicine medical informatics predoctoral trainee. Her research centers on consumer interactions with clinical information systems, mediated through text, in settings that range from patient portals to public libraries to disabilities support centers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlla Keselman, PhD, is a Senior Social Science Analyst in the Office of Engagement and Training, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. She holds a PhD in human cognition and learning and an MA in biomedical informatics from Columbia University. Dr. Keselman coordinates NLM efforts in evaluating the impact of its health information outreach and community engagement programs. Her research interests include lay understanding of complex health concepts, scientific literacy, and the provision of health information outside clinical settings. She has done work on bringing health and environment-related topics to the science classroom and conducted research into the role of libraries in providing health information to the public.\u003c\/p\u003e                                           ","brand":"Catherine Arnott Smith, Alla Keselman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46070033907946,"sku":"9781138337459","price":156.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/81oPci3ZNYL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781238897","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/consumer-health-informatics-chapman-hall-crc-healthcare-informatics-series","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}