Increasing patient safety using explanation-driven personalized content recommendation

In this paper we describe a novel approach of increasing patients' safety using explanation-driven personalized content recommendation. In this approach, patients are exposed to relevant medical information that is continuously gathered from various web sources and timely delivered, educating patients toward better preventive medicine decision making. Personalized content recommendations are further accompanied with detailed explanations that disclose useful information about each recommendation, helping patients to better utilize the recommended content for improving their safety. As a motivation for this approach, we describe the application of personalized ADE alerts. We then describe the recommendation system that we implement for the BlueMedics smart health system, which instantiates this approach. © 2010 ACM.