Integrating Personalized Health Information from MedlinePlus in a Patient Portal.

BORBOLLA, DAMIAN; DEL FIOL, GUILHERME; TALIERCIO, VANINA; OTERO, CARLOS M.; CAMPOS, FERNANDO; MARTINEZ, MARCELA; LUNA, DANIEL R.; QUIROS, FERNAN

Congreso; Mie 2014; 2014

The objective of this paper is to describe the implementation and use ofcontext aware information in Spanish from MedlinePlus embedded in a PatientPortal. Personalized information can help patients solve problems, make treatmentdecisions, gain confidence in their ability to care for themselves and communicatewith providers. To integrate MedlinePlus information in our institutional PHR weused the HL7 Context-Aware Knowledge Retrieval Standard, also known as theInfobutton Standard. After analysing one year of use, patients accessedMedlinePlus information in Spanish in a similar rate to other personalizedinformation generated locally. Infobuttons associated to laboratory test resultswere used in approximately 10% of patients portal sessions when reviewing labresults