Methods This non-exhaustive review focuses on topics from the field of consumer health
informatics because there has been a markedly increased interest in this field (additional …

Education and cognitive psychology have tended to pursue parallel rather than overlapping
paths. Yet there is, or should be, considerable common ground, since both have major …

The rapid growth of investment in information technology (IT) by organizations worldwide
has made user acceptance an increasingly critical technology implementation and …

When the first edition of Clinical Decision Support Systems was published in 1999, I began
the preface with the statement,“We are at the beginning of a new era in the application of …

This article argues that the medical record is an important focus for sociological research. In
medical work, the modern patient's body that Foucault has so aptly described is produced …

Objectives The Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way health is understood,
transforming the methods of treatment and diagnosis as well as the relationship between …

Anthropologists have been using ethnographic methods since the 1970s to support the
design and evaluation of software. While early use of such skills in the design world was …

Information management constitutes a major activity of the health care professional.
Currently, a number of forces are focusing attention on this function. After many years of …

Outcome-based evaluation is particularly useful for examining government and social
programs where there is no financial'bottom-line'. This two-part introductory reference …

Background Computer-based diagnostic systems are available commercially, but there has
been limited evaluation of their performance. We assessed the diagnostic capabilities of four …