Healthcare Online

Susannah Fox presented Pew Internet's latest research on mobile, social networks, teens, and health.

Director Lee Rainie presented to physicians, administrators, and staff at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California on January 12 on understanding social networking and online health information seeking.

Why do some people look online for health information while others do not?

The internet provides access not only to information, but also to each other, and Pew Internet’s research documents how this has transformed the health communications landscape over the last 10 years.

Peer-to-peer healthcare is a way for people to do what they have always done - lend a hand, lend an ear, lend advice - but at internet speed and at internet scale.

The internet provides access not only to information, but also to each other, and this has transformed the health communications landscape over the last 10 years.

How the internet is transforming health communications by providing us with access to information and each other.

Is "peer-to-peer healthcare" an idea whose time has come? Evidence and recent examples.

The online conversation about health is being driven forward by two forces: 1) the availability of social tools and 2) the motivation, especially among people living with chronic conditions, to connect with each other.

Lee Rainie discusses e-patients and their online behavior