How patient-generated health data and patient-reported outcomes affect patient-clinician relationships: A systematic review.

Introduction: Many patients use mobile devices to track health conditions by recording patient-generated health data. However, patients and clinicians may disagree how to use these data.

Objective: To systematically review the literature to identify how patient-generated health data and patient-reported outcomes collected outside of clinical settings can affect patient-clinician relationships within surgery and primary care.

The Experience of Home Care Providers and Beneficiaries With Enhanced Training Requirements in Washington State.

Our objective was to understand the perceived impact of Washington State's upgraded training and certification requirements of long-term care workers providing personal care services from the perspectives of consumers and home care aides. We applied conventional qualitative content analysis to semi-structured interviews with 17 consumers and 10 certified home care aides. We found that consumers in this study put a high premium on directing many aspects of their personal care services.

Using scenarios and personas to enhance the effectiveness of heuristic usability evaluations for older adults and their care team.

Objective: Using heuristics to evaluate user experience is a common methodology for human-computer interaction studies. One challenge of this method is the inability to tailor results towards specific end-user needs. This manuscript reports on a method that uses validated scenarios and personas of older adults and care team members to enhance heuristics evaluations of the usability of commercially available personal health records for homebound older adults.

Lack of Diversity in Personal Health Record Evaluations with Older Adult Participants: A Systematic Review of Literature.

Background: Older adults are not adopting personal health records (PHRs) at the same rates as other adult populations. Disparities in adoption rates are also reported in older adult subgroups. The variability in adoption may be because PHRs are not designed to meet older adult users.

Assessing Commercially Available Personal Health Records for Home Health: Recommendations for Design.

Background: Home health nurses and clients experience unmet information needs when transitioning from hospital to home health. Personal health records (PHRs) support consumer-centered information management activities. Previous work has assessed PHRs associated with healthcare providers, but these systems leave home health nurses unable to access necessary information.

Older Adults' Perceptions of Fall Detection Devices.

A third of adults over the age of 65 are estimated to fall at least once a year. Perhaps as dangerous as the fall itself is the time spent after a fall if the person is unable to move. Although there are many devices available to detect when a person has fallen, little is known about the opinions of older adults regarding these fall detection devices (FDDs).