Healthcare Online

Blogs are part of the bigger story about dramatic change in people's information environments. This presentation on health-related blogs focuses on their implication for health providers in communicating with patients and caregivers.

I recently helped my parents enroll in their new Medicare prescription drug plans using the Medicare.gov website...

Many parents go online to get information about their kids' upcoming surgical procedures.

Millions of Americans will welcome new access to industrial-strength health information -- but they'll miss the articles from one major journal.

79% of internet users have searched online for health information, with increasing interest in diet, fitness, and drug information

Eight in ten internet users have looked online for information on at least one of 16 health topics, with increased interest since 2002 in diet, fitness, drugs, health insurance, experimental treatments, and particular doctors and hospitals.

The presentation is an overview of several trends, including broadband adoption and a surge of interest in “every day” health topics, and how they affect the internet health landscape.

One in four Americans has used the internet to look for information about prescription drugs. Other topics covered: prescription drugs purchases online; drug-related spam.

This speech describes the different ways Internet users find health information online, whether they count on crude tools like search engines or become sophisticated “farmers” of health information, using trusted bookmarks and sharing what they fi...

Medical journal editors are grabbing headlines this week for demanding a registry of clinical trials, but in fact, they are just catching up to savvy e-patients who have been asking for the same thing for years.