---
title: "The Digital Health Revolution"
description: "If you really want to get into the topic of how the internet is changing health care, check out Fard Johnmar's new show, The Digital Health Revolution."
date: "2007-10-10"
authors:
  - name: "Susannah Fox"
    job_title: "Former Researcher"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/susannah-fox/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2007/10/10/the-digital-health-revolution/"
categories:
  - "Emerging Technology"
  - "Health Care"
  - "Health Policy"
  - "Healthcare Online"
  - "Medicine & Health"
---

# The Digital Health Revolution

Yesterday's [health report](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/PPF/r/222/report_display.asp) was a long time in the making. Our colleague [Tom Ferguson](http://www.doctom.com/), who coined the term [e-patients](http://e-patients.net/), died in April 2006 while we were working on the draft of the online survey, but Gilles Frydman of [ACOR.org](http://www.acor.org/) and I completed it and gathered 1,680 responses to the 20+ essay questions. The telephone survey, crafted by Kristen Purcell of [PSRAI](http://www.psrai.com/), was more straightforward and the [data set](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/PPF/r/63/dataset_display.asp) is now available so other researchers can have a look.

Although I often found it difficult to read the heartbreaking essays written by cancer patients and caregivers, it has been wonderful to see their stories bring the data to life, as in an Investor's Business Daily [story](http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&issue=20071008) by Donna Howell and a Star-Ledger [story](http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1191905352170540.xml&coll=1) by Kelly Heyboer.

If you really want to get into the topic of how the internet is changing health care, check out Fard Johnmar's new show, [The Digital Health Revolution](http://www.scribemedia.org/shows/dhr) (yes, I'm among the first guests). The show is hosted by ScribeMedia, producers of the very cool [history of health care](http://www.scribemedia.org/2007/09/20/health-20-conference/) video shown at the recent [Health 2.0](http://www.health2con.com/) conference.