Health Technology Literacy: A Transdisciplinary Framework for Consumer-Oriented Practice examines the wide range of resources used by health consumers to inform and support their decisions around their own health care. Today's health consumer is self-monitoring, building supportive social networks online or via cell phone, and engaging in treatment using interactive programs online, on CD, or related media. Using evidence-based practice and relevant theories, this unique text analyzes the trend for healthcare systems to be reactive, while consumers are proactively seeking the healthcare information they feel they deserve.<BR><BR>"Health Technology Literacy is a `must read' for anyone who cares about the future of health and health care, and how technology is already shaping a new consumer-oriented vision of that future. As one of today's leading scholars in the area of `consumer-facing health technologies,' Dr. Jordan-Marsh has written a book that helps the rest of us understand how taking better care of ourselves is being played out in the digital age."---Katharyn A. May, DNSc, RN, FAAN Professor and Dean, School of Nursing University of Wisconsin-Madison