Family Caregivers are Wired for Health
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
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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
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.
Susannah Fox provided data and insights about how Americans are presently using the internet and social media to assess healthcare quality.
As mobile, social tools spread throughout the population, people are connecting with each other. Why not harness those tools for health?
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.
A summary of recent research related to cancer and the internet.
A one-day forum on social media, HIV, and sexually transmitted infections turned out to be an unfiltered discussion of love, truth, and technology.
Speaking to the senior staff of the National Library of Medicine last week was like going before the best kind of murder board. Our jumping-off point was the Pew Internet Project’s latest research on internet penetration, mobile use, and the socia…
The internet does not replace health professionals, but rather provides a way for people to gather and share information in a rapid-learning system that can best be described as “participatory medicine.”
People living with chronic disease are disproportionately offline. And yet, those who are online have a trump card: They have each other. They gather and share information; they learn from their peers; and they just keep going.
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