For this week’s assignment, you will prepare a PowerPoint presentation on the consumer
informatics pillar of health informatics, including the e-patient movement (i.e., the widespread
use of the internet or other technologies that allows patients to have more participation in their
medical care) and the personal health record (PHR). Creating this week’s presentation will allow
you to explore how participatory health care informatics is shaping patient-centered models of
care.
Create your PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes that critically address each of the
elements given here. Remember that your presentation slides should have short, bullet-pointed
text with your speaker notes including the bulk of the information provided in the following list.
In your presentation,
• Interpret the definition of consumer health informatics from national sources.
o Utilize sources such as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ),
the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), and so forth.
• Compare the roles of patient, consumer, caregiver, and professional in consumer
informatics.
• Analyze health literacy’s role in the success of consumer informatics.
• Analyze the role of the e-patient movement and the PHR in effecting health care change.
• Examine how participatory health care informatics is shaping patient-centered models of
care.
• Compare two examples of consumer informatics applications of your choosing.
o Examples could be those found online, or you’ve encountered in your personal
life.
You may wish to include visual enhancements in your presentation. These may include
appropriate images, a consistent font, appropriate animations, and transitions from content piece
to content piece and slide to slide. Images should be cited in APA Style.
It is recommended that you access Garr Reynolds’ Presentation Zen. and Simple Rules for Better
PowerPoint Presentations, which provides useful assistance with creating successful PowerPoint
presentations.
Submit your completed PowerPoint presentation through Waypoint.
The Consumer Informatics presentation
• must be 10 double-spaced slides in length (not including title and references slides) with
speaker notes and formatted according to APA Style.
• must use at least 4 scholarly sources in addition to the course text
Course Texbook
Coiera, E. (2015). Guide to health informatics (3rd ed.). CRC Press.
https://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/design
https://writingcenter.uagc.edu/apa-style
https://uagc.instructure.com/courses/152866/modules/items/7794539
