A test-bed for personalized, privacy-preserving and high quality health information delivery

健康信息的消费者可以从越来越多的来源收集这些信息。隐私保护访问高质量的健康信息将是一个重要的辅助个人医疗保健管理。该项目正在开发一种“以患者为中心”的方法，以处理搜索复杂性，并提供个性化的高质量健康信息访问，同时始终保护患者的隐私。这项研究汇集了一个由计算机和信息科学家以及健康专家组成的跨学科团队，以开发一个试验台和模拟环境，支持这一新兴领域的研究。当地的印第安纳州大学提供健康信息学的研究生学位。该项目将有助于教育和宣传下一代健康信息学家。更大的卫生信息学社区将受益于一个测试平台的可用性，以促进这一重要领域的信息检索。

Consumers of health information have access to increasingly large numbers of sources from which to gather this information. Privacy preserving access to high quality health information will be an important adjunct to personal healthcare management. This project is developing a "patient-centered" approach to handle search complexity and provide personalized access to high quality health information while preserving the patient's privacy at all times. This research brings together an interdisciplinary team of computer and information scientists and health experts to develop a test-bed and simulation environment to support research in this emerging area.The broader impact of the research will be twofold. Locally Indiana University offers a graduate degree in Health Informatics. This project will help inform and educate the next generation of health informaticians. The larger health informatics community will benefit from the availability of a test-bed to advance information retrieval in this important area.