CONSUMER AND PATIENT USE OF COMPUTERS FOR HEALTH

Well I’m back hehehee how are you there I hope you’ve learned from my blog because I really understand what am I trying to share with you. But anyway going back with the topic consumer and patient use of computers for health. Well nowadays computer have been in touch on us since it was made. Moreover, not only nurses who used this computers but also with their clients. Why are they keeping on using this computer? Well the answer is by the use of the use “internet”, it is fast, anonymous, & always available.

The health care organization offers their communities a public Web site. Includes health articles developed by their own professional experts, or licensed from vendors. For example the Mayo Clinic - mayoclinic.com this provides a wealth of health information and tools. Pharmaceutical firms, drugstore chains & durable medical equipment.

This was also made the decision support that made available for the consumers. In DISEASE MANAGEMENT technological support for joint patient-provider collaboration in disease management is a promising application area.

There 8 PRINCIPLES in consumer and patient use of computer for health this would include;

1.  Authority
2. Complementarities
3. Confidentiality
4. Attribution
5. Justifiability
6. Transparency of authorship
7. Transparency of sponsorship
8. Honesty in advertising & editorial policy

Persons with low literacy – have low health literacy, because so much of medical terminology is dense and complex. Consumer-friendly terminologies – assist consumer with finding, understanding, and recording health-related material

Although not all of us can knows how to use this computer specially the elders so they made this special consideration namely;

1. Lay versus professional nomenclature
2. General literacy and health literacy
3. Computer literacy and the digital divide
4. Accessibility to persons with disabilities
5. User-centered design