Curnl Software Solutions

Insight: Engaging in Self Health through Consumer Health Informatics

Uploaded on: October 22, 2024

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The Democratization of Health Care

Democratization means that people must have a powerful voice and role in their own health decisions, and that health professionals and institutions must value social equity and treat people as individuals, not merely as patients, in a person-centered health care ecosystem.

For further reading, check Consumer Informatics and Digital Health Solutions for Health and Health Care - Springer 2019.

About Self Health

• Idea of Social Equity
• Inverted Level of Engagement:
  • Traditional Levels of Engagement
    1. Online searches for others
    2. Seeking guidance for conditions
    3. Joining online groups
    4. Reaching clinicians via ICT ← (Future)
• Personalized health information
• Self monitoring
• Ambulatory monitoring devices
• Shared decision making

To create an easily navigable health improvement pathway for the patient.

Idea of Social Equity

Social Determinants of Health

1. Income and Wealth
2. Environment
3. Public Safety
4. Social Environment
5. Education
6. Transportation
7. Housing
8. Employment
9. Health System

Need for community-driven solutions:

Engagement in Self Health: Digital Tools

1. Websites
2. Portals
3. Phone-based Applications (Apps)
4. Sensor-Based Connected Devices

Engagement in Self Health: to Improve

1. Remote/Local Monitoring
2. Connect with Clinicians
3. Connect with Health Systems
4. Patient knowledge of care options
5. Family knowledge about care options

Consumer Health Informatics

Is a field in which we aim to work, it is characterized by: People's ability to access information, participate in evidence-based care, and control their health through partnerships supported by information and communications technology.

Impact/Aim that we wish to make:

Future clinical practice should integrate patient-oriented-technology-based supports for health information and health behavior change.

Categories in Consumer Health Informatics

1. Mobile Apps
2. Websites
3. Interactive Health Games
4. Sensor Based Tracking Systems
5. Health Related Social Media
6. AR/VR/XR applications

Uses of Consumer Health Informatics

• Searching for Health Information
• Exchanging Health Info with:
  • Providers
  • Social Networks
• Tracking Symptoms for managing chronic conditions
• Making appointments
• Requesting refills of prescriptions
• Consenting to participate in research
• Performing analytics to identify trends
• Managing personal health data by
  • Inputting it yourself
  • Retrieving it from providers