Imaging informatics for consumer health: towards a radiology patient portal.

CONCLUSIONS: Radiologic imaging composes a significant amount of the evidence used to make diagnostic and treatment decisions, yet there are few tools for explaining this information to patients. The proposed radiology patient portal provides a framework for organizing radiologic results into several information orientations to support patient education. PMID: 23739614 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: research