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Navigation Interface for Recommending Home Medical Products

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Based on users’ health issues, an intelligent personal health record (iPHR) system can automatically recommend home medical products (HMPs) and display them in a sequential order. However, the sequential output interface does not categorize search results and is not easy for users to quickly navigate to their desired HMPs. To address this problem, we developed a navigation interface for retrieved HMPs. Our idea is to use medical knowledge and nursing knowledge to construct a navigation hierarchy based on product categories. This hierarchy is added to the left side of each search result Web page to help users move through retrieved HMPs. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our techniques using USMLE medical exam cases.

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We thank Selena B. Thomas, Chunqiang Tang, and Jing Wang for helpful discussions.

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Luo, G. Navigation Interface for Recommending Home Medical Products. J Med Syst 36, 699–705 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-010-9537-5

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