Consumer-Centered Computer-Supported Care for Healthy People.(Book review)

Consumer-Centered Computer-Supported Care for Healthy People

Proceedings of NI2006

Volume 122 Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Edited by: H.-A. Park, P. Murray and C. Delaney

Amsterdam, Netherlands: IOS Press

June 2006, 1104 pp., hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-58603-622-5

Price: US$200 / 160 [euro] / 110 [pounds sterling]

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A book from a conference, especially the Nursing Informatics 2006 conference in Seoul, Korea, can be a wonderful resource, and this is. Many CARING members attended this conference, and 56 of the 158 papers were presented or co-presented by CARING members. Trying to summarize a 1000 + page book that presents so many topics is an impossible task. In this review, I will briefly describe just a few of the many excellent articles it contains, leaving it to you the reader, to seek out the book to investigate the others. The job of selecting the papers to review is akin to a hungry person looking at hundreds of goodies all of which he/she wants (3 key note speeches, 158 papers, and 169 posters) when he/she can only select five.

The book is divided into four overall sections: keynote speeches, papers, posters, and demonstrations. The paper and poster sections are further subdivided into many different categories such as consumer informatics, decision support systems, and electronic health records. One of the strengths of the book is that, unlike many conference books, which usually contain only an abstract for presentations, this one includes both an abstract and the full paper for the three keynote speeches and the papers. Poster sessions are represented with an …