title: Integrating personalized health information from MedlinePlus in a patient portal.
abstract: The objective of this paper is to describe the implementation and use of context aware information in Spanish from MedlinePlus embedded in a Patient Portal. Personalized information can help patients solve problems, make treatment decisions, gain confidence in their ability to care for themselves and communicate with providers. To integrate MedlinePlus information in our institutional PHR we used the HL7 Context-Aware Knowledge Retrieval Standard, also known as the Infobutton Standard. After analysing one year of use, patients accessed MedlinePlus information in Spanish in a similar rate to other personalized information generated locally. Infobuttons associated to laboratory test results were used in approximately 10% of patients portal sessions when reviewing lab results.
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Department, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Damian
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Borbolla
authors.affiliation: University of Utah, Utah, USA.
authors.forename: Guilherme
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Del Fiol
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Department, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Vanina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Taliercio
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Department, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Otero
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Department, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Campos
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Department, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Marcela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Martinez
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Department, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Luna
authors.affiliation: Health Informatics Department, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Fernan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Quiros
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D055991:Health Records, Personal; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods*; D049293:MedlinePlus / Q000379:methods*; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D033283:Patient Access to Records; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010358:Patient Participation / Q000379:methods*; D013030:Spain; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled