Consumer Health Informatics: Informing Consumers and Improving Health Care, edited by Deborah Lewis, Gunther Eysenbach, Rita Kukafka, P. Zoe Stavri, and Holly Jimison

摘要

The strength of Lewis, Eysenbach, Kukafka, Stavri, and Jimison's (2005) Consumer Informatics: Informing Consumers and Improving Health Care lies in the editors' efforts to provide a comprehensive collection of short readings in the general, and underresearched, area of health informatics. Toward this end they include chapters on designing and evaluating health informatics information delivery methods; the impact on a variety of user groups of these online sources of health information; ethical and security issues involved in health informatics; and descriptions of a number of health informatics projects. While such a collection would be useful, there are a number of problems with this particular volume: chiefly, a general lack of critical analysis of the topics pursued within it.