Characterizing patient-friendly "micro-explanations"of medical events

Patients’ basic understanding of clinical events has been shown to dramatically improve patient care. We propose that the automatic generation of very short microexplanations, suitable for real-time delivery in clinical settings, can transform patient care by giving patients greater awareness of key events in their electronic medical record. We present results of a survey study indicating that it may be possible to automatically generate such explanations by extracting individual sentences from consumer-facing Web pages. We further inform future work by characterizing physician and non-physician responses to a variety of Webextracted explanations of medical lab tests. Author Keywords Electronic Medical Records, Personal Health Records ACM Classification Keywords J.3 [Computer Applications] Life Sciences – Health. General Terms Human Factors

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Lauren Wilcox, Dan Morris, Desney S. Tan, Justin Gatewood, Eric Horvitz
• Keywords: CHI 2011, Electronic Medical Record, Electronic Medical Records, Human Computer Interaction, Personal Health Records