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: Arnold CW, McNamara M, El-Saden S, Chen S, Taira RK, Bui AA Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: research
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