Consumer Informatics

Click the link below to view my paper: White Paper Lessons Learned: I truly had never heard of a white paper prior to this course. Altering from the traditional format of APA that the rest of our papers use was a little difficult to adjust to at first, as I found myself constantly wanting to fix it. What I have learned while writing this paper is that the purpose of a white paper is to advocate how you feel about a certain topic or to educate an audience about a problem and what solution there is to that problem. Regarding the topic of this paper, it allowed us to increase the reader’s knowledge of informatics nurses’ knowledge and skills, the needs of the consumer in healthcare, and how informatics and nursing can contribute to the health of the consumer. This paper allowed me to combine the knowledge that I have gained over the course of this semester but also research other information that I was unaware of.

Clink on the link below to view the video of my PowerPoint presentation: Telehealth in Today's Healthcare Target Audience: Telehealth can benefit healthcare consumers (patients) and a broad spectrum of healthcare professionals: physicians, patients, case managers, social workers, etc. Telehealth services can also benefit professionals in the pursuit of continuing their education via distance learning. With the growing demand of services provided electronically such as electronic medical records, patient portals, and many smartphone apps to monitor health behaviors, the use of telehealth services will continue to rise; these services are the future of patient-centered care. Lessons Learned: I learned a great deal about where telehealth originated from, I had no idea it started almost thirty years ago with NASA and the military. I also learned about the differences between telehealth and telemedicine and its expansion in healthcare. While I knew the basics of what serv...

Web 2.0 Tool             The World Wide Web has greatly evolved in most recent years. Its newest Web 2.0 tools have made creating and accessing websites more attainable for the average internet user. The term Web 2.0 refers to “the second generation of the Web” which is also known as the “read/write web, which centers on the ability for people to collaborate and share information” (Hebda & Czar, 2013, p. 84). Some examples of Web 2.0 tool applications are blogs, wikis, and video-sharing sites such as YouTube. YouTube             YouTube is a user-friendly, video-sharing Web 2.0 tool that allows consumers and health professionals to connect, educate, share ideas, and network with others. It is the second-largest search engine in the world, and currently the fastest growing video-sharing website (Mushroom Networks, 2017). YouTube has four essential values that defines ...

The purpose of this assignment is to compare data collected from interviews we personally conducted to data read/reviewed in similar studies and develop a PowerPoint presentation to unveil the data using appropriate tools. My PowerPoint presentation can be accessed on YouTube through the link below: Consumer Assessment: Consumer Data Analysis Lessons Learned    The results of my interviews suggest that all of the consumers in my interviews access the internet, but only 30% are frequently searching for health-related information.    The majority of consumers have seen a healthcare provider in the last six months (80%), but only 30% are searching the internet for questions/information to discuss with their provider prior to their visit.    In the Campbell study, 36.5% of participants searched the internet to locate health information after their visit with a healthcare provider (2005, p. 10); in my interviews, 50% of consumers used the in...

After reviewing the article Consumer Informatics: Elderly Persons and the Internet (Campbell, 2005), I developed a set of interview questions addressing information presented in the tables 2 and 3 of the article. These questions were presented to 10 consumers, ranging in the ages of 26-64, a total of five female and five male participants. One female was 26 years old, two females and three males were 31-39 years, one male was 48 years old, two females were 54 & 57 years old, and one male was 64 years old. I presented this information to the subjects requesting their voluntary participation to gain more knowledge on their use of technology and accessing the internet as a healthcare consumer to improve the quality of their care. I developed several questions similar to the Campbell study. The initial questions helped gain a general understanding of the participants such as gender, employment status, and education level and the remainder of the questions allowed me to collect dat...