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Consumer health informatics (CHI) is the branch of medical informatics that analyzes consumers’ needs for health information, studies and implements methods of making health information accessible to consumers, and models and integrates consumers’ preferences into health information systems. Consumer health informatics stands at the crossroads of several disciplines, including nursing informatics, public health, health promotion, health education, library science, and communication science; and is perhaps the most challenging and rapidly expanding field in medical informatics (Eysenbach 2000). Consumer health informatics is applicable to all consumers, regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status.
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In 1995, Ferguson introduced the term consumer health informatics as a new generation of medical information systems that serve both the doctors and the patients (Ferguson 1995). The traditional means for consumers to obtain...
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Yu, P., Zhu, Y., Halim, U.Z., Hailey, D. (2019). Consumer Health Informatics. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_440-1
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