Adaptive Visual Symbols for Personal Health Records

As a hub of information controlled by the patient, personal health records (PHR) collect information from the patient medical history including a wide variety of data sources as patient's observations, lab results, clinical findings and in the future maybe even personal genetic data and automatic recordings from monitoring devices. This development will on the one hand make health care more personalized and user controlled but on the other hand also overloads consumers with a huge amount of data. To address this issue we developed a framework for adaptive visual symbols (AVS). An AVS can adapt its appearance and level of detail during the communication process. Finally we demonstrate the AVS principle for the visualization of personal health records.