Consumer Health Informatics: Informing Consumers and Improving Health Care Book

Consumer Health Informatics.- Empowered Consumers.- Tailored Health Communication.- Design and Evaluation of Consumer Health Information Websites.- Information Delivery Methods.- Delivery of Online Learning for Healthcare Consumers.- Qualitative Evaluation in Consumer Health Informatics.- Patient to Patient Communication: Support Groups and Virtual Communities.- Electronic Patient-Centered Communication: E-mail and other E-ways to Communicate Clinically.- Consumer Health Vocabulary.- Disability Informatics.- Ethical Issues in Consumer Health Informatics.- Social Informatics and Consumer Health.- Security of Healthcare Information Systems.- The National Library of Medicine Reaches Out to Consumers.- Baby CareLink: Collaborative Tools to Support Families.- CHOICEs: Patients as Participants in Shared Care Planning at the Point of Care.- MedCERTAIN / MedCIRCLE: Using semantic web technologies for quality management of health information on the web.- The MI-HEART Project.- CHESS: 10 years of research and development in consumer health informatics for broad populations, including the underserved.