1st ed. 2019 Edition
by Margo Edmunds (Editor), Christopher Hass (Editor), Erin Holve (Editor)
This unique collection synthesizes insights and evidence from
innovators in consumer informatics and highlights the technical,
behavioral, social, and policy issues driving digital health today and
in the foreseeable future. Consumer Informatics and Digital Health
presents the fundamentals of mobile health, reviews the evidence for
consumer technology as a driver of health behavior change, and examines
user experience and real-world technology design challenges and
successes. Additionally, it identifies key considerations for
successfully engaging consumers in their own care, considers the ethics
of using personal health information in research, and outlines
implications for health system redesign. The editors’ integrative
systems approach heralds a future of technological advances tempered by
best practices drawn from today’s critical policy goals of patient
engagement, community health promotion, and health equity. Here’s the
inside view of consumer health informatics and key digital fields that
students and professionals will find inspiring, informative, and
thought-provoking.
Included among the topics:
• Healthcare social media for consumer informatics
• Understanding usability, accessibility, and human-centered design principles
• Understanding the fundamentals of design for motivation and behavior change
• Digital tools for parents: innovations in pediatric urgent care
• Behavioral medicine and informatics in the cancer community
• Content strategy: writing for health consumers on the web
• Open science and the future of data analytics
• Digital approaches to engage consumers in value-based purchasing
Consumer Informatics and Digital Health
takes an expansive view of the fields influencing consumer informatics
and offers practical case-based guidance for a broad range of audiences,
including students, educators, researchers, journalists, and
policymakers interested in biomedical informatics, mobile health,
information science, and population health. It has as much to offer
readers in clinical fields such as medicine, nursing, and psychology as
it does to those engaged in digital pursuits.
