Making sense of personal health information: Challenges for information visualization

Health Informatics Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 198-217

  Faisal, Sarah ^a   Blandford, Ann ^a   Potts, Henry Ww ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information visualization; personal health care; sensemaking

Indexed keywords

AUDIOVISUAL AID; DECISION MAKING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL RECORD; MOTIVATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROCEDURES; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; PERSONAL HEALTH CARE; REVIEW; SENSEMAKING;

AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GOALS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION;

INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; PERSONAL HEALTH CARE; SENSEMAKING;

EID: 84883330312     PISSN: 14604582     EISSN: 17412811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1460458212465213     Document Type: Article

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