The Diagnosis Difference
A portrait of the 45% of U.S. adults living with chronic health conditions
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
A portrait of the 45% of U.S. adults living with chronic health conditions
I began a recent speech at a medical school with a question that many busy clinicians might be asking: How do we know that social media is important to health care?
39% of U.S. adults provide care for a loved one, up from 30% in 2010, and many navigate health care with the help of technology
An estimate of how many people go online to seek a doctor’s opinion about something, such as on an “ask a doctor” site (hint: a fraction of a subgroup).
35% of U.S. adults have gone online to figure out a medical condition; of these, half followed up with a visit to a medical professional.
85% of American adults have a cell phone, yet just 9% have signed up for health alerts via text. What is the potential for this type of intervention?
69% of U.S. adults track a health indicator like weight, diet, exercise routine, or symptom. Of those, half track in their heads, one-third keep notes on paper, and one in five use technology to keep tabs on their health status.
Half of smartphone owners use their devices to get health information and one-fifth of smartphone owners have health apps
Pew Internet asked two questions about “self-tracking” in 2010 – how should we expand this area of our research?
Stephen Wolfram predicts that we will all self-track some day, but a Pew Internet survey suggests we have a long way to go. Just 1 in 4 internet users track health data online.
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