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Intelligent personal health record: experience and open issues

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Intelligent personal health record: experience and open issues
Web-based personal health records (PHRs) are under massive deployment. To improve PHR's capability and usability, we previously proposed the concept of intelligent PHR (iPHR). By introducing and extending expert system technology and Web search technology into the PHR domain, iPHR can automatically provide users with personalized healthcare information to facilitate their daily activities of living. Our iPHR system currently provides three functions: guided search for disease information, recommendation of home nursing activities, and recommendation of home medical products. This paper discusses our experience with iPHR as well as the open issues, including both enhancements to the existing functions and potential new functions. We outline some preliminary solutions, whereas a main purpose of this paper is to stimulate future research work in the area of consumer health informatics. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Search and Retrieval]: search process; I.2.1...
Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang, Selena B. Thomas
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Type Journal
Year 2010
Where IHI
Authors Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang, Selena B. Thomas
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