introduction: non-integrated health information has forced health sector to utilize information and communication technology (ict). national health information infrastructure (nhii) integrates clinical and health information, decreases medical errors as well as costs, and increases patient’s safety. thus, this article aimed to review the feasibility of nhii implementation in iran from perspecti...

national health information network (nhin) is a network in which all health care organizations, government agencies and other health-related organizations are connected to each other to exchange information about health. due to the necessity of a framework for nhin development, in this paper, according to the literature review, a definition for nhin framework was provided, and then the nhin rel...

BACKGROUND Laypeople increasingly use the Internet as a source of health information, but finding and discovering the right information remains problematic. These issues are partially due to the mismatch between the design of consumer health websites and the needs of health information seekers, particularly the lack of support for "exploring" health information. OBJECTIVE The aim of this rese...

As the emphasis on individuals' active partnership in health care grows, so does the public's need for effective, comprehensible consumer health resources. Consumer health informatics has the potential to provide frameworks and strategies for designing effective health communication tools that empower users and improve their health decisions. This article presents an overview of the consumer he...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Internet-based technologies such as personal health records and patient portals are increasingly viewed as essential for enhancing patient-provider communication and patient-centered care. We examined how primary care patients use the Internet, particularly patient characteristics associated with Internet use. METHODS We surveyed patients in five primary care clinic ...

OBJECTIVE To understand how consumer questions on online resources differ from questions asked by professionals, and how such consumer questions differ across resources. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ten online question corpora, 5 consumer and 5 professional, with a combined total of over 40 000 questions, were analyzed using a variety of natural language processing techniques. These techniques analy...

food labeling is found to be a very important public health tool aimed at providing consumers with information which may influence their purchasing decisions. this study has aimed to assess the consumers' behaviors about the important information on the labels and their reasons for use or non-use. this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted as point of purchase survey among 2123 shoppe...

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...