Title :
Personalizing Patient Education Using Internet Health Resources and EPR Data: Pilot Evaluation of the STEPPS Prototype System
Author :
Doupi, Persephone ; Wijk, M. ; Wyk, J. ; Lei, Jianjun
Author_Institution :
STAKES Unit for eHealth & eWelfare, Helsinki
Abstract :
A core problem for health information seekers is locating relevant information among the vast amount of online content. Personalization has been suggested as a solution to effective Web information retrieval and also explored in the healthcare context, but then primarily with paper-based or locally available material. In this paper we report on the evaluation of a prototype system, STEPPS, which utilizes electronic patient record data to personalize the retrieval of health information from a variety of online resources, for the purposes of patient education. In a blinded clinician assessment of Web pages retrieved for 27 individual profiles of patients hospitalized in Dutch burn care units, STEPPS performed significantly better than random selection of material.
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; health care; information retrieval; medical information systems; EPR data; Internet health resources; STEPPS prototype system; Web information retrieval; Web pages; blinded clinician assessment; electronic patient record data; health care; health information retrieval; health information seekers; patient education; personalization; Decision support systems; Helium; Internet; Paramagnetic resonance; Prototypes; Internet; electronic patient record; evaluation; patient education; personalization;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2008. CBMS '08. 21st IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Jyvaskyla
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3165-6
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.2008.105
