Title |
A consumer health informatics (CHI) toolbox: challenges and implications.
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Published in |
AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, January 2005
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Authors |
Theodora A Bakker, Andrea N Ryce, Robert A Logan, Tony Tse, Lidia Hutcherson |
Abstract |
Consumer health informatics (CHI) is a rapidly evolving sub-discipline of medical informatics. Such developing fields typically share common needs, such as harmonizing terms and building a common foundation of research methods and instruments. The authors describe a pilot study to conceptualize and develop a "CHI toolbox," a repository of existing methods and instruments across relevant established fields. The challenges encountered in attempting to organize concepts in a nascent, interdisciplinary field are discussed. The authors' experiences in creating a comprehensive CHI toolbox suggest that a larger, concerted effort to develop a similar product by members of the relevant research communities could accelerate the development of common terms, operational definitions, variables, and instruments within the CHI field. |
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United States | 1 | 9% |
Colombia | 1 | 9% |
Denmark | 1 | 9% |
Brazil | 1 | 9% |
Unknown | 7 | 64% |
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Researcher | 2 | 18% |
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Lecturer | 1 | 9% |
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Unknown | 1 | 9% |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 27% |
Social Sciences | 2 | 18% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 9% |
Unknown | 1 | 9% |