title: Empowered Consumers and the Health Care Team: A Dynamic Model of Health Informatics.
abstract: This article presents a dynamic new model of health informatics. Within the model, the focus of health informatics changes from the provider to the consumer and incorporates the dynamic relationship of technological change to health care. Bioinformatics is the scientific discipline that is translated into care through the practice of health informatics. The loci of health informatics practices are the consumer (consumer informatics), the patient (clinical informatics), and the community (public health informatics). The continuum from individual to community interacts with and contributes to health care technology, which is represented as a constantly changing progressive wave.
authors.affiliation: The Houston J. and Florence A. Doswell College of Nursing, Texas Woman's University, Dallas (Dr Mancuso); and University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics and University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston (Dr Myneni).
authors.forename: Peggy J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Mancuso
authors.forename: Sahiti
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Myneni
mesh_terms: D054626:Consumer Health Information / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management / Q000458:organization & administration; D008490:Medical Informatics; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods; D012648:Self Care / Q000592:standards; D014584:User-Computer Interface