Informatics Final- Week 10

Question 1

Define Consumer Health Informatics.

Answer 1

Branch of informatics that studies, develops and implements health applications for consumers

Question 2

What is the goal of consumer health informatics?

Answer 2

Empower consumers

Question 3

Why do we study consumer health informatics?

Answer 3

• Contain healthcare costs (emphasis on prevention and health self-managment)
• People actively looking for online health-related content

Question 4

What percent of Americans go online?

Answer 4

78%

Question 5

What percent of internet users look for health info?

Answer 5

72%

Question 6

What percent of internet users purchased medications online?

Answer 6

12.8%

Question 7

What are the advantages of online health?

Answer 7

24/7/365 availability, fast, private, reduced geographical barriers, reduced travel barriers, large reach

Question 8

What are the concerns of online health?

Answer 8

Variable quality, privacy, hard to use, fees, takes time, no accountability

Question 9

What percent of internet users use email?

Answer 9

92%

Question 10

What percent of internet users use a search engine?

Answer 10

92%

Question 11

What are the types of consumer E-Health tools?

Answer 11

• Health information (component of all tools)
• Behavior Change/Health self-management
• Online communities
• Decision support system
• Disease management
• Healthcare tools

Question 12

What is behavior change/health self-management?

Answer 12

used to achieve and maintain health behavior in various lifestyle areas such as diet and fitness

Question 13

What are online communities?

Answer 13

allow for interaction among patients, providers, caregivers about shared health concerns

Question 14

What are decision support systems?

Answer 14

Structured support for making decisions, usually around treatment options or choosing providers/insurance

Question 15

What is disease management?

Answer 15

Monitoring, record keeping, and communication devices for managing a chronic disease, often with health care providers

Question 16

What are healthcare tools?

Answer 16

Means of maintaining or accessing health records and interacting with healthcare providers

Question 17

Are interment interventions effective?

Answer 17

Yes, according to meta-analysis and randomized control trials

Question 18

What are important components for a behavior change website?

Answer 18

• Personalization
• Individual tailoring
• Behavioral feedback
• Grounded in health behavior theory
• Use of text messages and email to supplement

Question 19

How do you minimize attrition and promote utilization?

Answer 19

• Use ‘push’ reminders
• Use of incentives
• Minimizing usability challenges
• Use of a human counselor
• Keep content fresh

Question 20

What issues need to be addressed with internet health?

Answer 20

Evaluate immediate outcomes, scale for large scale development, determine actual reach, report actual website usage, research lags behind technological innovations

Question 21

What is user-centered design?

Answer 21

Approach for product development that incorporates end-users in all phases of the development process

Question 22

What are the design stages?

Answer 22

Needs assessment, determine mode of delivery, ID theoretical framework, develop & organize content, design look and feel, evaluate, user input

Question 23

Is the design stage linear?

Answer 23

No… it is cyclical

Question 24

What is the digital divide?

Answer 24

Gap between who has and who doesn’t have access, literary, language, diversity, and or quality/judgement (??)

Question 25

What is access?

Answer 25

Original concern of digital divide; where do people have access? do they have a computer? smart phone? high speed internet? etc

Question 26

What is the approximate trend in internet adoption in the past 15 years?

Answer 26

Increase from around 15 percent to almost 90 percent

Question 27

Who uses the internet?

Answer 27

Men and women about even, race about even, younger 50 more likely to use than over fifty, wealthier people more likely to use internet, higher education more likely to use internet, disability= less likely to use internet

Question 28

Who are non-users (of the internet)?

Answer 28

About 15% of Americans

Question 29

What are the main reasons of internet non-use?

Answer 29

Not relevant to them (34%) Internet not easy to use (32%) Cost (19%) Don't have access (7%)

Question 30

What is the trend in broadband vs. dial up internet access?

Answer 30

Broadband now makes up most of the internet connections, dial up only used by 2% of americans (gap reflects trends seen in general internet usage)

Question 31

In what areas is broadband less common?

Answer 31

Rural ares

Question 32

How has gadget use changed?

Answer 32

Increase in use of cellphones, smartphones, desktops/latptops, mp3 players, readers, game consoles, tablets

Question 33

How do we assess quality of online health information?

Answer 33

authority, purpose and content, currency, design and ease of use, accreditation (e.g. HON code), reality check

Question 34

What is the HON code?

Answer 34

Based on 8 principles: Authority, Complementarity, Privacy, Attribution, Justifiability, Transparency, Financial disclosure, Advertising Does NOT rate on medical accuracy