J Korean Soc Med Inform.  2007 Dec;13(4):311-320.

The Issues and Trends of Consumer Health Informatics Research

• Kim J
• Lee S
• Park M

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.

Keyword

Consumer; Consumer Health Informatics; Internet Health Information; Quality Evaluation

MeSH Terms

Informatics*