Personal Health and Consumer Informatics

A. Guardia; B. C. Boyer; Section Editors for the IMIA Yearbook Sections on Personal Health Informatics and on Consumer Informatics

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1639426

Yearbook of Medical Informatics, Table of Contents

Yearb Med Inform 2012; 21(01): 25-29
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1639426

Synopsis

Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart

Personal Health and Consumer Informatics

Authors

A. Guardia

¹Dept. of Medical Imaging and Information Sciences, Division of eHealth and Telemedicine Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Medico-economics Affairs, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
B. C. Boyer

¹Dept. of Medical Imaging and Information Sciences, Division of eHealth and Telemedicine Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Medico-economics Affairs, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Section Editors for the IMIA Yearbook Sections on Personal Health Informatics and on Consumer Informatics

Abstract

Summary

Objectives

To summarize current outstanding research in the field of Personal Health and Consumers Informatics.

Methods

A selection of excellent research articles published in 2011 in the field of Personal Health Informatics and Consumer Informatics.

Results and Conclusions

This selection of articles shows that Personal Health Informatics is changing. Indeed, the different solutions tended to the doctors and their interaction, but also tended to the patient in order for him to be more active in his own medical healthcare. The consumer section highlights the development of the social network and the possible limitations.

Keywords

Personal health informatics - consumer informatics - personal heatlh record - smartphone - social networks

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