Abstract
Innovations in health information technology have ushered in a new era of health care. The use of emerging information and communication technology to improve or enable health and health care is the central focus of consumer health informatics (CHI). Traditionally, CHI interventions to promote health and well-being have targeted the individual or family. Advances in genomic health and the emergence of public health informatics call for broadening the scope of CHI. The authors discuss CHI from the point-of-view of the consumer (e.g., from individuals to policy makers) and the level of health data from the subcellular (e.g., genetic or protein structures) to population (e.g., geographically-referenced information).
MeSH terms
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Community Health Planning / organization & administration*
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Community Participation
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Computer-Assisted Instruction
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Forecasting
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Genomics / education
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Genomics / organization & administration*
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Health Education / organization & administration*
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Health Services Needs and Demand
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Humans
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Internet / organization & administration
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Medical Records Systems, Computerized / organization & administration
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Nursing Research / organization & administration
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Patient Access to Records / trends
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Population Surveillance
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Public Health / education
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Public Health / methods
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Public Health / statistics & numerical data
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Public Health Informatics / organization & administration*
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Registries
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Risk Assessment / organization & administration
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Telemedicine / organization & administration
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United States