Consumer Informatics and Digital Health: Solutions for Health and Health Care
Synopsis "Consumer Informatics and Digital Health: Solutions for Health and Health Care "
This unique compendium synthesizes experience-based insights from consumer informatics innovators and presents a systemic view of the interplay between the technical, behavioral, social, and policy issues driving digital health today and in the foreseeable future. Consumer Informatics and Digital Health presents the fundamentals and achievable impact of mobile health, reviews the evidence for consumer technology as a driver of health behavior change, and considers the ethics of using personal health information in research. Additionally it offers a close examination of user experience and technology design challenges and real-world successes, identifies key considerations for successfully engaging consumers in their own care and outlines their 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 healthcare goals of patient engagement, community health promotion, and health equity. Here?s the inside view of consumer health informatics and key ancillary fields, direct from the front lines, that students and professionals will find inspiring, informative, provocative, and insightful. 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 changeDigital 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 purchasing.Consumer Informatics and Digital Health takes an expansive view of the fields comprising and surrounding consumer informatics and offers practical case-based guidance for a broad range of audiences, including students, educators, researchers, journalists, and policymakers interested in health informatics, mobile health, information science, and population health. Additionally, 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.
