Health Knowledge Visualization for the Elderly

Abstract

Aiming at the problem of cognitive mismatch between the knowledge structure of the ordinary elderly and medical professionals, health knowledge visualization is used to help the elderly understand vague medical information clearly. Based on the literature research of domestic senile diseases, a study of optimizing medical report of urine testing was conducted, and the information display interface before and after the redesign is compared. The new medical treatment can make the people of ordinary elderly know their physical conditions more intuitively and comprehensively by health knowledge visualization, like providing the cartoon diagram and the color expression in accordance with cognitive limitations of the elderly. The user interface of new medical report can also effectively provide the elderly immediate precautions according to their actual needs of health supervision. The goal is to improve the efficiency and quality of decision-sharing for the elderly and to improve the therapeutic experience.