BACKGROUND In Australia, liver cancer incidence is rising, particularly among people born in hepatitis B-endemic countries. We sought to build an understanding of the information needs of people affected by liver cancer, to inform the design of in-language consumer information resources. METHODS We searched the World Wide Web for available in-language consumer information and conducted a lite...

Despite the growth of Consumer Health Informatics (CHI) websites, searching for relevant health information remains a challenging task for most users, especially for the consumer of non-medical professionals. Most consumers only have vague idea and cannot describe their health situation clearly due to lack of medical knowledge; therefore consumers’ query keywords often do not accurately reflect...

The track entitled "Consumer Informatics Supporting Patients as Co-Producers of Quality" at the AMIA Spring 2000 Congress was devoted to examining the new field of consumer health informatics. This area is developing rapidly, as worldwide changes are occurring in the organization and delivery of health care and in the traditional roles of patient and provider. This paper describes the key theme...

This paper reports marketplace developments for consumer-driven health plans in spring 2002. Findings are from interviews with executives from start-up and health insurance firms, benefit consultants, employee benefit managers, Wall Street analysts, consumer organizations, thought leaders, and policymakers. We detail available evidence about the performance of consumer-driven health plans conce...