BMJ  2005;331:892-894 (15 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7521.892

Clinical review

ABC of health informatics

How computers can help to share understanding with patients

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Introduction

In the second article of this series ( BMJ 2005;331: 625-7[Free Full Text]) Ms Patel found a lot of material on the internet and spoke to family members about their health and the causes of death of some family members. Ms Patel discussed this information with her general practitioner (GP), who then referred Ms Patel to a clinical genetics centre. The genetics clinic team converted Ms Patel's understanding of the situation into a genogram using Risk Assessment in Genetics software (RAGs).

A cancer registry was used to find the cause of death of Ms Patel's older sister because she had died overseas. By integrating multiple sources of information the genetics clinic team could advise Ms Patel that her lifetime risk of developing breast cancer was about 30%, and that she would probably benefit from further investigation. If Ms Patel was investigated and shown to carry . . . [Full text of this article]

Access to images, audio, and animation

Multimedia information retrieval

Risk prediction tools

Problems with information retrieval during consultations

Computers in a consultation

After the consultation

Summary

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