Personal Health Informatics, 1st ed. 2022 Patient Participation in Precision Health Cognitive Informatics in Biomedicine and Healthcare Series

This book clarifies consumer and personal health informatics and their relevance to precision medicine and healthcare applications. Personal Health Informatics covers a broad definition of this emerging field, with individuals not simply consuming health but as active participants, researchers and designers in the healthcare ecosystem. The world of health informatics is constantly changing given the ever-increasing variety and volume of health data, care delivery models that shift from fee-for-service to value-based care, new entrants in the ecosystem and the evolving regulatory decision landscape. These changes have increased the importance of the role of patients in research studies for understanding work processes and activities, and the design and implementation of health information systems. Therefore, personal health informatics now provide research tools and protocols to engage within individual contexts when developing solutions, which can improve clinical practice, patient engagement and public health.  

Personal Health Informatics offers a snapshot of this emerging field, supported by the methodological, practical, legal and ethical perspectives of researchers and practitioners. In addition to being a research reader, this book provides pragmatic insights for practitioners in designing, implementing and evaluating personal health informatics in healthcare settings. It represents an excellent reader for students in all clinical disciplines and biomedical and health informatics to learn from the case studies provided in this emerging field.

Pei-Yun Sabrina Hsueh, PhD, FAMIA is a serial Global Health AI Industry Leader, specializing in real-world data science and strategy. She is a Board Member of the Association of Computing Machinary Practitioners Board, the co-Chair of AI Evaluation Showcase 2023, the Vice Chair of AMIA 2022, and an elected Fellow of American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA) and serves on the Steering Committees of Women in AMIA and Work Groups. She previously served as the Chair of the Consumer and Pervasive Health Informatics Work Group at AMIA and led Behavioral Analytics works at the Centre for Computational Health of IBM Research. Dr. Hsueh has been a pioneer in the area of Health AI with a focus on evidence generation and validation across technical, workflow, and system integration. She has been elected as IBM Academy of Technology Member, co-chair of IBM Health Informatics Professional Community, and the European Google Anita Borg Scholar. She authored 20+ patents and 60+ technical articles in the fields of computational linguistics and applied informatics. Her expertise in the emerging areas and industry solutions makes her a sought-after speaker and consultant, winning AMIA Distinguished Paper Award, multiple invention, research achievement and manager choice awards, and Eminence and Excellence Award. She has also been chairing applied data science events at major conferences such as AMIA, MEDINFO, MIE, and KDD and is also actively involved in the public policy consultation and serves on the FDA response team in the AMIA public policy committee and IEEE Standards Committee.  Sabrina is devoted to mentor newcomers and women leaders who are pursuing interdisciplinary career paths. She is a founding co-director of the joint podcast series between ACM and AMIA on this topic. To provide updates to the fast-evolving field, She has also been editing new textbooks on Machine Learning for Medicine and Healthcare (Springer Nature), Personal Health Informatics (Springe

Offers a concise snapshot of the field, providing clarity to the ever-increasing variety and volume of health data

Provides pragmatic insights for practitioners in designing, implementing and evaluating personal health informatics

Defines consumer and personal health informatics and their relevance to precision medicine and healthcare applications