A Review of Features in Internet Consumer Health Decision-support Tools

A Review of Features in Internet Consumer Health Decision-support Tools

BACKGROUND Over the past decade, health care consumers have begun to benefit from new Web-based communications tools to guide decision making on treatments and tests. Using today's online tools, consumers who have Internet connections can: watch and listen to videos of physicians; watch and hear the stories of other consumers who have faced the same decisions; join an online social support netw...

Consumer Engagement through Effective Decision-Support Tools

To meet consumer needs for assistance with treatment and provider choices, as well as cost and budget management, consumer decision-support tools have evolved and proliferated in recent years. Interest in these decision aids has accelerated with the expectation that consumer participation in health care decision-making will promote self-care and information transparency. Consumer participation ...

Ai Tools in Decision Making Support Systems: a Review

Consumer Decision Support Systems: A Health Care Case Study

Next-generation business-to-consumer electronic commerce applications will rely more on locating, integrating, and presenting valuable information to consumers than implementing simple economic exchanges. While there are certainly profits to be captured in the economic exchange, the upstream information gathering and decision making activities offer some interesting opportunities for consumer s...

Internet-Based Spatial Decision Support Using Open Source Tools

AbstrAct In the last half decade, there has been growing interest in the concept of collaborative geographic information systems (GIS) in support of decision making, especially in the context of various domains of planning. This interest has spawned an already substantial literature in what is now becoming popularly known as public participation GIS (PPGIS) or community GIS. A central and gener...