HLST 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Health Informatics, Electronic Health Record, Web Portal
15 Jun 2017
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Consumer health informatics tools can be classified in several different ways. For example at least 6 basic categories of consumer health informatics tools can be defined. These include mobile apps or consumer health applications designed for mobile devices, health information oriented websites, interactive health games, sensor based tracking systems, health oriented social media and virtual reality programs. Within each of these categories hundreds and in some cases thousands of products are available for use by patients and consumers. Home telemonitoring is an important aspect of telemedicine or the remote delivery of care, which is discussed in much greater detail in the chapter on telemedicine. Web portals are web-based programs patients can access for health related services. A web portal can be a standalone program or it can be integrated with an electronic health record. hospital, Patient portals began as a web-based entrance to a healthcare system for the purpose of learning about a system or physician"s practice.
