| Autor: |
Pratt, Wanda1,2 wpratt@u.washington.edu, Unruh, Kenton3 ktunruh@u.washington.edu, Civan, Andrea4 andreah@u.washington.edu, Skeels, Meredith4 mskeels@u.washington.edu |
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Communications of the ACM. Jan2006, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p51-55. 5p. 2 Diagrams. |
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The article presents information on personal health information management. Integrating personal health information can help people manage their lives and actively participate in their own health care. Personal information management pervades every aspect of one's life, including health care. Within this system, efforts to reduce costs have limited the time clinicians are able to spend with patients. In response, patients soul also prepare themselves in advance of consultations, communicate effectively with clinicians about unfamiliar health information, and organize and store information gleaned from the consultation for future use. Many healthcare services are now delivered in outpatient settings, where patients receive care, then return home. Patients assume significant responsibility for monitoring their own health status, managing their recovery and communicating with clinicians from home during such care programs. In such system of specialized, mainly outpatient, health care places new demands on patients. |
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
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