Personal Health Information: The Last Frontier on the World Wide Web James J. Cimino, M.D., Soumitra Sengupta, Ph.D., Eneida Mendonça, M.D., M.S., Department of Medical Informatics Columbia University Vimla L. Patel, Ph.D., Andre Kushniruk, Ph.D. Centre for Medical Education, McGill University
Things You Can Do On the Web Read a newspaper Buy groceries Banking Trade stocks Track your Fed Ex package Get health information
Kinds of Health Information You Can Get Medline citations Drug advertisements Quack therapies Viagra prescriptions
Kinds of Health Information You Can’t Get Your cholesterol level Your mammogram report A list of your current medications Advice from your doctor
Personal Health Information on the Web Access to your electronic medical record Ability to contribute to your medical record Relevant, reliable, understandable advice Fostering patient-clinician communication
Challenges Web access to electronic records Security and confidentiality issues Political issues Ethical issues
Web Access to Electronic Records Data in electronic form? Data accessible? Data queries Presentation Writing to record
Security and Confidentiality Issues Identification Authentication Authorization Privacy
Political Issues Clinician response Medicolegal issues Institutional Review Board
Ethicial Issues Discovery without supervision Misunderstanding and worry Misunderstanding and complacency Patient-clinician communications –better –shorter –worse –longer
PatCIS: An Experiment to Gain Experience Funded by the US National Library of Medince Architecture Applications
PatCIS Screen shot
Data Entry Review Advice Education Comments Help Logout Java script Vital SignsBlood Sugar Data Entry patcis.cgi Web Server Web Browser Session Registry Re-enter Password Usage Log Internet Javascript Link CGI 11
PatCIS Architecture Integration Security Tracking Evaluation Feature blocking
PatCIS Domains Data entry Data review Education Advice “Infobuttons”
Data Entry screen shot
Data Review graph? More screen shots
Mammogram Advice screen shot
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Current Experience Small number of users No problems thus far Favorable response Evaluation under way
Potential Areas of Expansion Advance directives Pap smear infobutton
Addressing the Challenges Web access to records Security and confidentiality issues Political issues Ethical issues
Conclusions