AIMC Topic: Consumer Health Information

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Automated Classification of Consumer Health Information Needs in Patient Portal Messages.

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Patients have diverse health information needs, and secure messaging through patient portals is an emerging means by which such needs are expressed and met. As patient portal adoption increases, growing volumes of secure messages may burden healthcar...

FIR: An Effective Scheme for Extracting Useful Metadata from Social Media.

Journal of medical systems
Recently, the use of social media for health information exchange is expanding among patients, physicians, and other health care professionals. In medical areas, social media allows non-experts to access, interpret, and generate medical information f...

Automated Detection of HONcode Website Conformity Compared to Manual Detection: An Evaluation.

Journal of medical Internet research
BACKGROUND: To earn HONcode certification, a website must conform to the 8 principles of the HONcode of Conduct In the current manual process of certification, a HONcode expert assesses the candidate website using precise guidelines for each principl...

Evaluating an AI Chatbot "Prostate Cancer Info" for Providing Quality Prostate Cancer Screening Information: Cross-Sectional Study.

JMIR cancer
BACKGROUND: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots may be useful tools for supporting shared prostate cancer (PrCA) screening decisions, but the information produced by these tools sometimes lack quality or credibility. "Prostate Cancer Inf...

Identification of Online Health Information Using Large Pretrained Language Models: Mixed Methods Study.

Journal of medical Internet research
BACKGROUND: Online health information is widely available, but a substantial portion of it is inaccurate or misleading, including exaggerated, incomplete, or unverified claims. Such misinformation can significantly influence public health decisions a...

Does the Internet Provide Quality Information on Metoidioplasty? Using the Modified Ensuring Quality Information for Patients Tool to Evaluate Artificial Intelligence-Generated and Online Information on Metoidioplasty.

Annals of plastic surgery
BACKGROUND: Public interest in gender affirmation surgery has surged over the last decade. This spike in interest, combined with extensive free online medical knowledge, has led many to the Internet for more information on this complicated procedure....

Assessment of Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Responses to Top Searched Queries About Cancer.

JAMA oncology
IMPORTANCE: Consumers are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots as a source of information. However, the quality of the cancer information generated by these chatbots has not yet been evaluated using validated instruments.

Consumer health information and question answering: helping consumers find answers to their health-related information needs.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: Consumers increasingly turn to the internet in search of health-related information; and they want their questions answered with short and precise passages, rather than needing to analyze lists of relevant documents returned by search engi...

Spell checker for consumer language (CSpell).

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: Automated understanding of consumer health inquiries might be hindered by misspellings. To detect and correct various types of spelling errors in consumer health questions, we developed a distributable spell-checking tool, CSpell, that han...