The Issues and Trends of Consumer Health Informatics Research

Kim, Jeongeun; Lee, Sunyoung; Park, Mihua

doi:2007.13.4.311

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Journal of Korean Society of Medical Informatics 2007;13(4):311-320.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4258/jksmi.2007.13.4.311 Published online December 31, 2007.

The Issues and Trends of Consumer Health Informatics Research

Jeongeun Kim, Sunyoung Lee, Mihua Park

¹College of Nursing Seoul National University, Korea.
²Research Institute of Nursing Science Seoul National University, Korea.

Abstract

The Consumer Health Informatics has been developing very fast recently as the new trends of consumerism emerged. This article reviewed the numerical expansion of the CHI researches since 1989 based on the search results of the PubMed database, and classified the main issues of CHI researches and categorized them into 10 issues. The trends of the CHI researches were analyzed by the categories and the timeline.

Key Words: Consumer, Consumer Health Informatics, Internet Health Information, Quality Evaluation