| Year: 2005 | 
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| LHNCBC-2005-044 |
| A Consumer Health Informatics (CHI) Toolbox: Challenges and Implications |
| Bakker TA, Ryce AN, Logan RA, Tse T, Hutcherson L |
| Proceedings of AMIA Symposium 2005: 21-5. |
| Consumer health informatics (CHI) is a rapidly evolving sub-discipline of medical informatics. Such developing fields typically share common needs, such as harmonizing terms and building a common foundation of research methods and instruments. The authors describe a pilot study to conceptualize and develop a CHI toolbox, a repository of existing methods and instruments across relevant established fields. The challenges encountered in attempting to organize concepts in a nascent, interdisciplinary field are discussed. The authors' experiences in creating a comprehensive CHI toolbox suggest that a larger, concerted effort to develop a similar product by members of the relevant research communities could accelerate the development of common terms, operational definitions, variables, and instruments within the CHI field. |
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