De Gruyter
•Shows how patient’s medical imaging data can be shared among healthcare providers and do so with minimal burden on both patients and providers.
•Demonstrates how portals can provide patients with access to their electronic health records.
•Gives patients granular control over release of personal health data aggregated from multiple sources.
•Expands shorthands and linking concepts in the document to user-centric web search engines; that is, very similarly to a word processor.
•Explains Twitter for Health – how to search Twitter to understand laypeople's personal experiences about their health concerns and use crowd to "curate" this uncurated data (whom to trust).Information Technologies for Patient Empowerment in Healthcare explores novel information-based mechanisms that are changing the way patients are involved in their own health care. The book will cover a broad spectrum of topics including models, frameworks and technologies to improve the following: patient-to-provider communication; patient interaction with information technologies already adopted in the context of health care; patient education and involvement in health care decision processes; patient access, understanding and control over their clinical data; ethical issues; and, evaluation methods. This comprehensive volume will be an indispensable tool for medical IT specialists, professors and students of medical informatics, healthcare providers, physicians and nurses.
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