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    This document discusses consumer informatics and digital health. It notes that there has been significant change in how medical information is delivered and healthcare is provided due to advances in technology. This allows patients greater access to care and information to help manage their health. The document also discusses how technologies like wearables and health apps help patients monitor their health and embrace emerging trends. Maintaining access to private health data helps chronic patients improve self-care. Overall, improved access to information through technology can facilitate behavioral changes that reduce medical costs and lead to better population health outcomes.

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    This document discusses consumer informatics and digital health. It notes that there has been significant change in how medical information is delivered and healthcare is provided due to advances in technology. This allows patients greater access to care and information to help manage their health. The document also discusses how technologies like wearables and health apps help patients monitor their health and embrace emerging trends. Maintaining access to private health data helps chronic patients improve self-care. Overall, improved access to information through technology can facilitate behavioral changes that reduce medical costs and lead to better population health outcomes.

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    This document discusses consumer informatics and digital health. It notes that there has been significant change in how medical information is delivered and healthcare is provided due to advances in technology. This allows patients greater access to care and information to help manage their health. The document also discusses how technologies like wearables and health apps help patients monitor their health and embrace emerging trends. Maintaining access to private health data helps chronic patients improve self-care. Overall, improved access to information through technology can facilitate behavioral changes that reduce medical costs and lead to better population health outcomes.

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    Running Head: CONSUMER INFORMATICS AND DIGITAL HEALTH 1

    Consumer Informatics and Digital Health

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    CONSUMER INFORMATICS AND DIGITAL HEALTH 2

    Consumer Informatics and Digital Health

    Key from Chapter 1

    Interestingly, there has been a significant change in the delivery and providence of medical

    information over the years, owing to the shift in technology advancements. It is in the access that

    patients have to medical care that they can, in turn, receive the expected and desired care, being

    able to seek an interpretation of the procedures by the clinicians. Te questioning is in the event of

    contradicting r conflicting care given from the one postulated in the resources provided in the

    platforms provided. The aspect offers clients the power to manage their health and effectively

    combat the conditions that they have.

    Also, the aspect of patients getting to keep up with the latest and emerging trends is of

    significance. It signals that their embrace of technology also aims to improve their health and

    quality of life. Such aspects as wearables and applications in their mobile phones that monitor

    their health prove their commitment (Edmunds, Hass & Holve, 2019). Moreover, it's access to

    private health data that patients, especially those with chronic illnesses, improve their health

    through surveillance, encouraging them to see people using technology for good.

    It is of significance in self-care for individuals to know how to take care of themselves is a

    significant takeaway from the reading. Most people believe that they can do nothing to prevent

    illnesses, therein reluctant to take the first step in taking care of themselves. However, there is a

    stipulation that patients having a change in their behaviors is the most crucial aspect of self-care.

    In having an understanding of what ails an individual's well-facilitated by the improved

    technology that sees to individuals monitoring their health, behavioral change can see to it that
    CONSUMER INFORMATICS AND DIGITAL HEALTH 3

    procedural costs are reduced, having the patients improve their health through their ways of

    living.

    Additionally, medical care costs are relatively high that individuals wish that they could reduce

    their contact with health facilities where they spend a lot. However, measures to reduce medical

    care spending also arise is investing in the aspects of social care such as child care. With such

    elements, a healthy population occurs with a reduced need for medical care. In people getting to

    understand the essence of social care, they would save more while also having a healthy

    population with a long life expectancy.

    Personal Sharing Statement

    Despite Consumer Health Informatics having health information on the consumers' hands, I

    believe that the masses should first embrace communication while receiving care. They should

    not have to speak up or inquire and comment on the quality of health care give, but rather, they

    should have a culture of always knowing the care they receive. They should engage the clinicians

    with questions so that after the procedure, they can easily explain the procedures or, instead, they

    can further learn more in their time. Besides, clinicians' information might be excluded from the

    information provided, thus having communication essential (Edmunds, Hass & Holve, 2019).

    Open Question

    How can the six categories of CHI tools facilitate a behavioral change of an individual if

    the population that he is in does not allow for the behavioral change? For instance, the

    individuals' position at work or the people around him do not make it easy to embrace the

    changes aligning with their behavior?


    CONSUMER INFORMATICS AND DIGITAL HEALTH 4

    References

    Edmunds, M., Hass, C., & Holve, E. (2019). Consumer Informatics and Digital Health:

    Solutions for Health and Health Care. Basingstoke, England: Springer.

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