Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Formative Research
Date Submitted: Jun 22, 2023
Open Peer Review Period: Jun 22, 2023 - Aug 17, 2023
Date Accepted: Oct 24, 2023
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Digital Personal Health Coaching Platform for Promoting HPV Vaccinations and Cancer Prevention: A Knowledge Graph-based Recommendation System
ABSTRACT
Background:
Health promotion can empower populations to gain more control over their well-being by utilizing digital interventions that focus on preventing the root causes of diseases. Digital platforms for personalized health coaching can improve health literacy and information-seeking behavior, leading to better health outcomes. Personal Health Records have been designed to enhance patients' self-management of a disease or condition. Existing Personal Health Records have been mostly designed and deployed as a supplementary service that acts as views into electronic health records (EHRs).
Objective:
To overcome some of the limitations of EHRs, this study aims to design and develop the Personal Health Library (PHL) that generates personalized recommendations for HPV vaccine promotion and cancer prevention.
Methods:
We have designed a proof-of-concept prototype of a Digital Personal Health Librarian (DPHL) that leverages Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and several innovative technological infrastructures, including the Semantic Web, Social Linked data, the Web API, and hypermedia-based discovery to generate a Personal Health Knowledge Graph.
Results:
We have designed and implemented a proof-of-the-concept prototype to showcase and demonstrate how the PHL can be used to store an individual's health data, e.g., a Personal Health Knowledge Graph. This is integrated with Web-scale Knowledge to support HPV vaccine promotion and prevent HPV-associated cancers among adolescents and their caregivers. We also demonstrated how a DPHL utilizes the PHL to provide evidence-based insights and knowledge-driven explanations that are personalized and inform health decision-making.
Conclusions:
Digital platforms such as PHL can be instrumental in improving precision health promotion and education strategies that address population-specific needs (i.e., health literacy, digital competency, language barriers, etc.) and empower individuals by facilitating knowledge acquisition to make healthy choices.
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