Consumer Health Informatics New Services, Roles, and Responsibilitie
This book reveals health informatics as it applies to the interaction between medicine and patient. It defines the subject and provides a comprehensive discussion of the factors at play.Consumer Health Informatics represents the most current review of the
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Thomas Wetter
Consumer Health Informatics New Services, Roles, and Responsibilities
Health Informatics
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Thomas Wetter
Consumer Health Informatics New Services, Roles, and Responsibilities
With contributions by George Demiris, Amanda K. Hall, Andrea Hartzler, Jina Huh, Georgios Raptis and Lisa M. Vizer
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Thomas Wetter Institute for Medical Biometry and Informatics University of Heidelberg Heidelberg, Germany Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle, WA, USA
ISSN 1431-1917 Health Informatics ISBN 978-3-319-19589-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-19590-2
ISSN 2197-3741 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-19590-2 (eBook)
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Foreword
After years in the making, consumer health informatics is coming of age. People measure their physiological reactions, monitor their diets, network with others, track their physical activity, search the Internet, communicate with clinicians, and otherwise use information technologies to support taking care of themselves. Enthusiastic reports tout this key area of health informatics as the way to patient empowerment and improved health care. In this welcome and refreshingly balanced book, Thomas Wetter thoughtfully reflects on the promise and potential of these new technologies and examines attendant social changes and ethical considerations. This book was some years in the making. Thomas had been working on it since before he asked me to participate in a panel at the 2013 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium [1]. He became cochair of the International
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