Patient-centered e-health

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Wilson, E. Vance
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Medical informatics.; Medical telematics.; Medical personnel and patient.; Medical Informatics > trends.; Internet.; Medical Records Systems, Computerized > trends.; Patient-Centered Care > trends.; Self Care > trends.; Asthma self-management; Asthmatics' non-use of e-health systems; Chronic disease self-management; Disability determinations; E-health marketing; E-health perception in rural communities; E-health research; Facilitating conditions; Healthcare cost transparency; Healthcare quality; Incompatible images; Interaction design; Online health communications; Patient-centered e-health design; Patient-centered e-health initiatives; Personal health records; PHR user interface; Privacy management; Provider-delivered e-health; Technology adoption; Web-based tools
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Adoption of a user-centered design (UCD) focus has immensely enriched the health industry. Application of UCD concepts are key to successful development of e-services, including e-health. Patient-Centered E-Health presents the perspective of a distinct form of e-health that is patient-focused, patie...

Table of Contents:

• Towards patient-centered care: the role of e-health in enabling patient access to health information / Juanita Dawson, Bengisu Tulu, Thomas A. Horan
• Patient-centered e-health design / Alejandro Mauro, Fernán González Bernaldo de Quirós
• Connecting with ourselves and others online: psychological aspects of online health communication / Jan-Are K. Johnsen, Deede Gammon
• Personal health records: patients in control / Ebrahim Randeree, Melinda Whetstone
• Disability determinations and personal health records / Elaine A. Blechman
• E-health marketing / Muhammad F. Walji, John A. Valenza, Jiajie Zhang
• Privacy management of patient-centered e-health / Olli P. Järvinen
• Trust in patient-centered e-health / Richard Klein, Michael Dinger
• Involving patients and the public in e-health research / John Powell, Natalie Armstrong
• Using interaction design to improve usability of a PHR user interface based on visual elements / Stefano Forti ... [et al.]
• Healthcare quality and cost transparency using Web-based tools / Jiao Ma, Cynthia LeRouge
• Perceptions of e-health in rural communities / Ann L. Fruhling
• Assessing a patient-centered e-health approach to chronic disease self-management / Elizabeth Cummings, Stephen Chau, Paul Turner
• Incompatible images: asthmatics' non-use of an e-health system for asthma self-management / Michel J. Sassene, Morten Hertzum
• Exploring the technology adoption needs of patients using e-health / Linda M. Gallant, Cynthia Irizarry, Gloria M. Boone
• Predicting patients' use of provider-delivered e-health: the role of facilitating conditions / E. Vance Wilson, Nancy K. Lankton.