Personalized and adaptive systems for medical consumer applications

Personalized and adaptive material have great potential for providing health-related information to medical consumers - to patients and to the general public. Health professionals have taken advantages of techniques such as mail merge to produce printed letters and leaflets that incorporate informat...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM 2002-05, Vol.45 (5), p.62-63
Main Authors: Bental, Diana, Cawsey, Alison
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Health care
Information systems
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Summary:Personalized and adaptive material have great potential for providing health-related information to medical consumers - to patients and to the general public. Health professionals have taken advantages of techniques such as mail merge to produce printed letters and leaflets that incorporate information for specific individuals. Adaptive and tailored messages have contributed to smoking cessation, increasing physical exercise, and improving diets, as well as helping patients to manage illnesses such as asthma and diabetes for themselves.
ISSN:0001-0782
1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/506218.506248