TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ammar, Nariman
AU  - Olusanya, Olufunto A
AU  - Melton, Chad
AU  - Chinthala, Lokesh
AU  - Huang, Xiaolei
AU  - White, Brianna M
AU  - Shaban-Nejad, Arash
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/11/15
TI  - Digital Personal Health Coaching Platform for Promoting Human Papillomavirus Infection Vaccinations and Cancer Prevention: Knowledge Graph-Based Recommendation System
JO  - JMIR Form Res
SP  - e50210
VL  - 7
KW  - health information exchanges
KW  - knowledge graphs
KW  - recommender systems
KW  - personal health libraries
KW  - vaccine promotion
KW  - cancer prevention
KW  - personal health informatics
AB  - Background: Health promotion can empower populations to gain more control over their well-being by using 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. Objective: We aim to overcome some of the limitations of electronic health records. This study aims to design and develop a personal health library (PHL) that generates personalized recommendations for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine promotion and cancer prevention. Methods: We have designed a proof-of-concept prototype of the Digital Personal Health Librarian, which leverages machine learning; natural language processing; and several innovative technological infrastructures, including the Semantic Web, social linked data, web application programming interfaces, 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, for example, 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 the Digital Personal Health Librarian uses the PHL to provide evidence-based insights and knowledge-driven explanations that are personalized and inform health decision-making. Conclusions: Digital platforms such as the PHL can be instrumental in improving precision health promotion and education strategies that address population-specific needs (ie, health literacy, digital competency, and language barriers) and empower individuals by facilitating knowledge acquisition to make healthy choices. 
SN  - 2561-326X
UR  - https://formative.jmir.org/2023/1/e50210
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2196/50210
UR  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37966885
DO  - 10.2196/50210
ID  - info:doi/10.2196/50210
ER  -