E-Health and Consumer Health Informatics

his assignment is about learning more about how technology, like health apps and websites, is changing the healthcare arena. We want to explore how these tools affect how healthcare is provided to people and how we as nurses can encourage self-care from patients and consumers utilizing e-health. Create a PowerPoint video talking about these topics.

Slide 1: Introduction to E-health

• Identify the basic concepts of e-health.

Slide 2: Integration of E-health with Precision Medicine

• Summarize the integration of e-health with precision health, which tailors to disease prevention and promotion of health to patients and consumers of health.

Slide 3: Consumer Health Informatics

• Define consumer health informatics and its role in engaging and empowering patients toward self-care with an example from your nursing practice or experience.

Slide 4: E-health Applications in Disease Management

• Share an example of e-health and supporting disease management for patients with chronic conditions.

Slide 5: Importance of Personal Health Records (PHRs)

• Share an example of using a PHRs either as a patient yourself or assisting patients/clients to retrieve, store, manage, and/or share health information.
• What is an innovative strategy to improve digital health equity using wearables?

Slide 6: Future Trends and Challenges

• Describe one future trend integrating e-health and consumer health informatics into healthcare delivery that has the potential to improve patient care outcomes.

Slide 7: References

encompasses the use of telecommunications platforms, mobile (and ubiquitous) hardware and software, and advanced information systems to support and facilitate healthcare delivery and education. E-health has triggered a fundamental redesign of healthcare processes, integrating electronic communication at all levels and affecting all stakeholders. E-health also supports patient engagement and even patient empowermentthe transition from a passive role (where the patient is the recipient of care services) to an active role (where the patient is involved in and perhaps even leads the decision-making process). Feste and Anderson (1995) emphasize that the patient empowerment model introduces “self-awareness, personal responsibility, informed choices and quality of life.” Precision medicinea new healthcare paradigm that uses vast amounts of data from multiple data sources to identify and classify disease processes (McGrath and Ghersi 2016)is expected to create a new era of personalized medicine in which individuals biological, physiological, behavioral, social, and environmental parameters, as well as their values and preferences, will inform tailored disease prevention and treatment. In this context, e-health can play a significant role in collecting information about individual patients needs and preferences and monitoring their physiological and behavioral parameters, wherever they may be.

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E-health bridges the clinical and nonclinical sectors and includes both individual- and population healthoriented tools. It encompasses different platforms, including telehealth applications that can span geographic distances (e.g., videoconferencing), web portals and mobile apps, online support groups, social media, wearable devices, and passive monitoring sensors. In addition, e-health delivers healthcare information, diagnoses, treatment, and care in a nonlinear manner where traditional hierarchies are obsolete and patients may enter the system at an infinite number of points, each with his or her own pattern and frequency of utilization. Healthcare lawyers are challenged “to determine whether they are dealing with the sale of a product or the supply of a service [and] whether to apply strict products liability or professional negligence” (Terry 2000).

Advances in telecommunication technologies and data networks have introduced innovative ways to enhance communication between health professionals and patients. The result has been a shift in focus for informatics researchers and system designers, who had primarily aimed to design information technology (IT) applications that met the needs of healthcare providers and institutions by using data models that included episodic patient encounters as one group of healthcare-related transactions. The emerging model instead centers on the life course of individual patients and aims to ensure continuity of care and the inclusion of other stakeholders, such as family members, in the decision-making process. New technologies and informatics approaches call for the development of informatics tools that support patients and their families as active consumers in the healthcare delivery system. This shift from institution-centered to patient-centered information systems requires new approaches to design and evaluation that examine and maximize the system’s effectiveness.

is the area of health systems informatics that focuses on the implementation and evaluation of system design to ensure direct interaction with the consumer, with or without the involvement of healthcare providers. It is a fast-growing subdomain of biomedical and health systems informatics that emphasizes the potential of informatics tools to engage and empower patients and equip them with the means to explore choices (Demiris 2016). This domain also emphasizes the value of informatics tools not only for those who become patients when they are diagnosed with a condition and find themselves interacting with the health system but for all health consumers who wish to engage in decision making about their well-being, disease prevention, and self-management. The applications and systems described in this chapter all belong to the domain of consumer health informatics and aim to support individual patients healthcare needs and preferences as well as those of their families.