consumer health information

Coiera E, Yin K, Sharan RV, Akbar S, Vedantam S, Xiong H, Waldie J, Lau AY. Family informatics. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2022 Jul 1;29(7):1310- 5. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocac049

Family informatics While families have a central role in shaping individual choices and behaviors, healthcare largely focuses on treating individuals or supporting self-care. However, a family is also a health unit. We argue that family informatics is a necessary evolution in scope of health informatics. To deal with the needs of individuals, we must ensure technologies account

Akbar S, Coiera, E, Magrabi F. Safety concerns with consumer-facing mobile health applications and their consequences: a scoping review. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2019.

Objective: To summarize the research literature about safety concerns with consumer-facing health apps and their consequences. Materials and methods: We searched bibliographic databases including PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Cochrane libraries from January 2013 to May 2019 for articles about health apps. Descriptive information about safety concerns and consequences were extracted and classified into