McDaniel Anna M, Schutte Debra L, Keller Linda Olson
Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
Nurs Outlook. 2008 Sep-Oct;56(5):216-223.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2008.06.006.
Innovations in health information technology have ushered in a new era of health care. The use of emerging information and communication technology to improve or enable health and health care is the central focus of consumer health informatics (CHI). Traditionally, CHI interventions to promote health and well-being have targeted the individual or family. Advances in genomic health and the emergence of public health informatics call for broadening the scope of CHI. The authors discuss CHI from the point-of-view of the consumer (e.g., from individuals to policy makers) and the level of health data from the subcellular (e.g., genetic or protein structures) to population (e.g., geographically-referenced information).
健康信息技术的创新开创了医疗保健的新时代。利用新兴的信息和通信技术来改善或促进健康及医疗保健是消费者健康信息学（CHI）的核心关注点。传统上，促进健康和福祉的CHI干预措施针对的是个人或家庭。基因组健康领域的进展以及公共卫生信息学的出现要求扩大CHI的范围。作者从消费者的角度（例如从个人到政策制定者）以及从亚细胞水平（例如基因或蛋白质结构）到人群水平（例如地理参考信息）的健康数据层面来讨论CHI。
