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This collection organizes the best thinking and technologies related to the broad range of information challenges, including access, language complexity, quality, and privacy, that face people with chronic conditions such as diabetes. The sociotechnical perspective taken by this extraordinary set of researchers serves as a model for applying information technology to a broad range of health informatics challenges beyond the case of diabetes. -- Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina

About the Author

Barbara M. Hayes is Associate Dean for Administration and Planning at Indiana University School of Informatics at Indiana University– Purdue University Indianapolis. William Aspray is Bill and Lewis Suit Professor of Information Technologies in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the coeditor of Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation (2006) and The Internet and American Business (2008), both published by the MIT Press. Mark Ackerman is Associate Professor in the School of Information and in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan.

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"This collection organizes the best thinking and technologies related to the broad range of information challenges, including access, language complexity, quality, and privacy, that face people with chronic conditions such as diabetes. The sociotechnical perspective taken by this extraordinary set of researchers serves as a model for applying information technology to a broad range of health informatics challenges beyond the case of diabetes." Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina