Contemporary Consumer Health Informatics

This innovative reference examines how consumer health informatics (CHI) can transform healthcare systems stressed by staffing shortages and budget constraints and challenged by patients taking a more active role in their care. It situates CHI as vital to upgrading healthcare service delivery, detailing the relationship between health information technologies and quality healthcare, and outlining what stakeholders need to learn for health IT systems to function effectively. Wide-ranging content identifies critical issues and answers key questions at the consumer, practitioner, administration, and staff levels, using examples from diverse conditions, countries, technologies, and specialties. In this framework, the benefits of CHI are seen across service domains, from individual patients and consumers to healthcare systems and global health entities.

Included in the coverage:

• Use of video technology in an aged care environment
• A context-aware remote health monitoring service for improved patient care
• Accessibility issues in interoperable sharing of electronic health records: physician’s perspective 
• Managing gestational diabetes with mobile web-based reporting of glucose readings
  
• An organizing vision perspective for developing and adopting e-health solutions
  

An ontology of consumer health informatics Key Considerations in Consumer Health Informatics combines blueprint and idea book for public health and health informatics students, healthcare professionals, physicians, medical administrators, managers, and IT practitioners.

Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe researches and teaches within information systems domain with particular focus on the applications of these areas to healthcare and thereby effecting superior healthcare delivery. She is well published in all these areas with more than 250 referred scholarly articles, several books and an encyclopedia. In addition, she regularly presents her work throughout North America, as well as inEurope and Australasia. Nilmini Wickramasinghe is a professor at the Business Information Technology School and a core member of the Health Innovation Research Institute at RMIT University Australia and holds the Epworth Chair Health Information Management. In addition, she is the U.S. representative of the Health Care Technology Management Association, and the editor-in-chief of two scholarly journals published by InderScience.