---
title: "The Online Healthcare Revolution and the Rise of e-Patients and e-Caregivers"
description: "This presentation is an overview of the Project’s ongoing research about how people use the Internet to get medical and health information."
date: "2003-11-03"
authors:
  - name: "Lee Rainie"
    job_title: "Former Director, Internet and Technology Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/lee-rainie/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2003/11/03/the-online-healthcare-revolution-and-the-rise-of-e-patients-and-e-caregivers/"
categories:
  - "Health Care"
  - "Health Policy"
  - "Healthcare Online"
  - "Medicine & Health"
  - "Online Search"
  - "Social Media"
tags:
  - "Families"
  - "Seniors"
---

# The Online Healthcare Revolution and the Rise of e-Patients and e-Caregivers

This presentation is an overview of the Project’s ongoing research about how people use the Internet to get medical and health information. It looks at the kind of information they seek, the way they assess the credibility of the information they find, and the impact of their searches on their health behavior.