Health Sites: Some Are More Equal Than Others
Search is central to health information gathering. Now search sites are guiding consumers to safe, trusted health websites. Is that such a bad thing?
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Search is central to health information gathering. Now search sites are guiding consumers to safe, trusted health websites. Is that such a bad thing?
Susannah Fox will present data about the impact of the internet on health and health care to a meeting of the HIT Policy Committee, convened by David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., National Coordinator…
Susannah Fox will discuss how adults living with chronic conditions such as high blood pressure and heart disease are – or are not – using the internet.
Susannah Fox delivered a guest lecture for a history of medicine course regarding the role of the internet in health care over the last 15 years.
Quick answers to frequently-asked questions: Is a cultural shift affecting health care? How do people judge the quality of health information online? Are patients ready for this?
As part of a panel on privacy, security, and confidentiality, Susannah Fox discussed the “shadow economy” of health data that has sprung up, with all the dangers and opportunities of an unregulated market.
NPR’s Morning Edition story, “Patients Turn to Online Buddies for Help Healing,” combined research and real-life examples, participatory medicine and health data rights.
Connected patients spread new ideas, new treatments, and new ways of approaching a condition. Put them on your team.
New survey data shows that not only is there a participatory class of citizen, but there is a participatory class of patient.
Deloitte has created a new health consumer typology that is worth checking out, despite their reliance on an online-only sample.
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