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Integrating Personalized Health Information from MedlinePlus in a Patient Portal

2014; IOS Press; Linguagem: Inglês

10.3233/978-1-61499-432-9-348

1879-8365

Damián Borbolla, Guilherme Del Fiol, Vanina Taliercio, Carlos Otero, Fernando Campos, Marcela Martínez, Daniel Luna, Fernán Gonzalez Bernaldo de Quiros,

Semantic Web and Ontologies

The objective of this paper is to describe the implementation and use of context aware information in Spanish from MedlinePlus embedded in a Patient Portal. Personalized information can help patients solve problems, make treatment decisions, gain confidence in their ability to care for themselves and communicate with providers. To integrate MedlinePlus information in our institutional PHR we used the HL7 Context-Aware Knowledge Retrieval Standard, also known as the Infobutton Standard. After analysing one year of use, patients accessed MedlinePlus information in Spanish in a similar rate to other personalized information generated locally. Infobuttons associated to laboratory test results were used in approximately 10% of patients portal sessions when reviewing lab results.