Online Course
Nurs 736 - Technology Solutions for Knowledge Generation in Healthcare
Module 5: Managing Consumer Health Information
Overview
Consumers have new opportunities and challenges to gain knowledge about their own health and illnesses. With the increased volume of information resources, finding quality information is an issue. How does one evaluate the quality of resources in support of health care? What assurances are there that the information is trustworthy? The Internet has health education resources for consumers in addition to social interaction and networking online. Resources include the ability for patients to create their own electronic personal health records, use mobile devices to manage their care and have virtual, telehealth visits with their providers online. This module gives you the opportunity over two weeks to explore consumer-related health information resources and technological advances in health care.
Objectives
After reviewing this module, the learner should be able to:
- Define and differentiate e-Health, e-patient, health literacy, social networking and consumer health informatics
- Describe issues associated with consumer informatics
- Evaluate the quality of a health information Web site
- Define personal health record, mhealth, telehealth and telenursing
- Describe features, advantages, and disadvantages of the personal health record
- Identify functions and issues related to telehealth and mHealth
Required Readings
- Nelson & Staggers Chapter 8: Telehealth and Applications for Delivering Care at a Distance
- Nelson & Staggers Chapter 12: The Engaged ePatient
- Nelson & Staggers Chapter 13: Social Media Tools for Practice and Education
- Nelson & Staggers Chapter 14: Personal Health Records
- Nelson & Staggers Chapter 15: mHealth: The Intersection of Mobile Technology and Health
- Health on the Net Foundation. Retrieved from http://www.hon.ch/
- MedLine Plus Trusted Health Information for You: Quality Guidelines. Retrieved from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/criteria.html
Recommended Readings
- Health Fact Sheet (updated periodically). Pew Research Center. Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/health-fact-sheet/
- Barrett, S. (updated periodically). Your guide to quackery, health fraud, and intelligent decisions. Retrieved from http://www.quackwatch.org/
- Issues related to the e-Health initiative. Retrieved from http://www.ehealthinitiative.org/
- Tao, D., Wang , T., Wang, T., Zhang, T., Zhan, X., Qu, X. (2020).
A systematic review and meta-analysis of user acceptance of consumer-oriented health information technologies. Computers in Human Behavior. ISSN: 0747-5632, 104, 106147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.09.023
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