Abstract Laypersons (“consumers”) often have difficulty finding, understanding, and acting
on health information due to gaps in their domain knowledge. Ideally, consumer health …

Resource endowment influences college students' entrepreneurship and has a significant
impact on entrepreneurial intention. To explore the relationship between different forms of …

As the emphasis on individuals' active partnership in health care grows, so does the public's
need for effective, comprehensible consumer health resources. Consumer health informatics …

Patient adherence to recommended diabetes self-care practices reduces the risk of diabetic
complications. However, most clinic-based approaches have proved inadequate in …

Objective: Health information retrieval (HIR) on the Internet has become an important
practice for millions of people, many of whom have problems forming effective queries. We …

Objective: Online social networking sites are web services in which users create public or
semipublic profiles and connect to build online communities, finding likeminded people …

Background The development of consumer health information applications such as health
education websites has motivated the research on consumer health vocabulary (CHV). Term …

There is often a disconnect between the language that consumers use to express health
concerns and the language that is used by health care professionals. At the same time …

Background Electronic health records (EHRs) are a rich resource for developing
applications to engage patients and foster patient activation, thus holding a strong potential …

Allowing patients direct access to their electronic health record (EHR) notes has been
shown to enhance medical understanding and may improve healthcare management and …