国外消费者健康信息学研究综述

Purpose/significance] Consumer health informatics, as an emerging international discipline, is rapidly spreading in developed countries, such as Europe and United States. This paper focuses on the research status of consumer health informatics from its birth to today. The paper makes some recommendations about future research trends on the basis of review, and provides reference for the development of consumer health informatics in our country.[Method/process]This paper summarizes the literature on consumer health informatics at home and abroad in recent years, mainly analyzes research papers, main opinion papers, conference papers and so on, related topics in Web of Science, Science Direct and Scopus.[Result/conclusion]Although the research results on consumer health informatics are fruitful, but the definition of consumer health informatics is not yet unified, most of researches are "staying" in the application of technology.