Healthcare Online

Ha Tu and Genna Cohen of the released their latest report on how Americans gather health information.

People turn to the internet for health information when the stakes are high and the connection fast.

The Pew Internet Project recently updated our top three Latest Trends charts: Who's Online, Internet Activities, and Daily Internet Activities.

Something important is afoot in the land when people are able to access and share "industrial strength" information instead of being satisfied with the "consumer strength" information previously offered to them.

I always suspect that audience members have as much to share as I have to say. So when Mary Madden and I received an invitation to speak at the Na...

In this presentation, Mary Madden and Susannah Fox discuss the rise of participatory medicine within the context of key internet demographics and emerging online trends.

Participatory medicine and why people are "looking for the mouse."

Alicia Chang’s story on doctor-patient email has generated quite a bit of coverage and comment across the Web. I’m quoted as saying that “[p]eople are able to file their taxes online, buy and sell household goods, and manage their financial accounts. The health care industry seems to be lagging behind other industries.” Here is a […]

Deloitte has created a new health consumer typology that is worth checking out, despite their reliance on an online-only sample.

E-patients are at the center of the health care revolution, but how will Health 2.0 attract and serve the majority, not just the elite?