Consumer health informatics :  informing consumers and improving health care / 
Deborah Lewis ... [et al.], editors ; with a foreword by Warner V. Slack. 
 - New York :  Springer,  c2005. 
 - xxi, 258 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
 - Health informatics .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Consumer health informatics / D. Lewis, B.L. Chang, C.P. Friedman. -- Empower consumers / P.F. Brennan, C. Safran. -- Tailored health communication / R. Kukafka. -- Design and evaluation of consumer health information web sites / G. Eysenbach. -- Information delivery methods / J.H. Harrison, Jr. -- Delivery of online learning for healthcare consumers / D. Lewis. -- Qualitative evaluation in consumer health informatics / B. Kaplan. -- Patient-to-patient communication: support groups and virtual communities / G. Eysenbach. -- Electronic patient-centered communication: e-mail and other e-ways to communicate clinically / D.Z. Sands. -- Consumer health vocabulary / C.A. Smith, P.Z. Stavri. -- Disability informatics / R. Appleyard. -- Ethical issues in consumer health informatics / H.B. Jimison. -- Social informatics and consumer health / S. Sawyer. -- Security of healthcare information systems / R. Schoenberg. -- The National Library of Medicine reaches out to consumers / J.E.B. BAckus, E.M. Lacroix. -- Baby CareLink: collaborative tools to support families / C. Safran, D. Goldsmith. -- CHOICEs: patients as participants in shared care planning at the point of care / C.M. Ruland. -- MedCERTAIN/MedCIRCLE: using semantic web technologies for quality management of health information on the web / G. Eysenbach. -- The MI-HEART Project / R. Kukafka, Y.A. Lussier, J.J. Cimino. -- CHESS: 10 years of research and development in consumer health informatics for broad populations, including the underserved / D.H. Gustafson, R.P. Hawkins, E.W. Boberg, F. McTavish, B. Owens, M. Wise, H. Herhe, S. Pingree. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>038723991X (hc : acid-free paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005278172 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>972614109  GyFmDB 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medical informatics.<br/>Internet in medicine.<br/>Telecommunication in medicine.<br/>Medical telematics.<br/>Consumer Participation.<br/>Delivery of Health Care.<br/>Information Systems.<br/>Medical Informatics.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>R858  / .C665 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610.285