Summary: Blowing in the Wind: Unanchored Patient
Information Work during Cancer Care
Predrag Klasnja1
, Andrea Civan Hartzler2
, Kent T. Unruh2
, & Wanda Pratt1,2
1
Information School & DUB Group
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195, USA
[klasnja, wpratt]@uw.edu
2
Biomedical and Health Informatics
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195, USA
[andreah, ktunruh]@uw.edu
ABSTRACT
Patients do considerable information work. Technologies
that help patients manage health information so they can
play active roles in their health-care, such as personal health

Source: Anderson, Richard - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington at Seattle
Pratt, Wanda - Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, University of Washington at Seattle

Collections: Biology and Medicine; Computer Technologies and Information Sciences