Using integrated information
to make health-related decisions.
Patients often face an
overwhelming volume of fragmented
information, making it
difficult for them to gain a
proper overview and understand
its relevance and implications for their many healthrelated
decisions. Tools that highlight the multiple
contexts of personal health information could facilitate
different understandings of the same information.
These tools might allow patients to group
together related information to support specific
decisions. Irene needs to pull together the information
she has collected about her treatment options to
understand the trade-offs of her various choices in
terms of treatment success rates, severity of side
effects, costs, and insurance coverage.