Table 1.

Key Questions

1) What evidence exists that CHI applications impact

a) Health care process outcomes (e.g., receiving appropriate treatment) among users,

b) Intermediate health outcomes (e.g., self-management, health knowledge, and health behaviors) among users,

c) Relationship-centered outcomes (e.g., shared decision making or clinician-patient communication) among users,

d) Clinical outcomes (including quality of life) among users, e) Economic outcomes (e.g., cost and access to care) among users?

2) What are the barriers that clinicians, developers, consumers, and their families or caregivers encounter that limit utilization or implementation of CHI applications?

3) What knowledge or evidence exists to support estimates of cost, benefit, and net value with regard to CHI applications?

4) What critical information regarding the impact of CHI applications is needed to give consumers, their families, clinicians, and developers a clear understanding of the value proposition particular to them?