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Provision of tailored health information for patient empowerment: An initial study
Biagio LenzittiMarco AlfanoDavide TaibiMarkus Helfertsubject
Patient EmpowermentUser RequirementHealth Information Seeking020205 medical informaticsComputer sciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectInformation needs02 engineering and technologyUser requirements documentUser Requirementsschema.orgWorld Wide Web03 medical and health sciencesSearch engine0302 clinical medicinePatient Empowerment; Health Information Seeking; User Requirements; Structured Data on the Web; schema.orgStructured Data on the WebWeb page0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringInformation retrieval030212 general & internal medicineEmpowermentmedia_commonSchema.orgSettore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniSettore INF/01 - Informaticabusiness.industryEducational technologyWorld Wide WebEducational technologyHealthThe Internetbusinessdescription
Search of "right" health information by patients/citizens is an important step towards their empowerment. The number of health information seekers on the Internet is steadily increasing over the years so it is crucial to understand their information needs and the challenges they face during the search process. However, generic search engines do not make any distinction among the users and overload them with the amount of information. Moreover, specific search engines/sites mostly work on medical literature and are built by hand. This paper analyses the possibility of providing the user with tailored web information by exploiting the web semantic capabilities and, in particular, those of schema.org and its health-lifesci extension. After presenting a short review of the main user requirements when searching for health information on the Internet, an analysis of schema.org and its health-lifesci extension is shown to understand the main properties and semantic capabilities in the health/medical domain. Finally, an initial mapping among user requirements and schema.org elements is presented in order to provide expert and non-expert user categories with web pages that satisfy their specific requirements.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2019-06-21 |