A Physician’s Authoring Tool for Generation of Personalized Health Education in Reconstructive Surgery

Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare

Volume

Papers from the 2006 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

Personalization of health information related to a specific patient’s characteristics would be an effective means of providing patient-centric health care. Further, it would allow the patient to be both better-educated about their specific condition and better able to make informed decisions. This paper contains a description of a method of providing such personalized health-related materials in one area of plastic surgery. The paper contains an outline of the approach, a description of the tools developed to date, and a design for an authoring tool that is being created to support the domain expert in acquiring and organizing health information.