Trends: The Social Life of Health Information
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The FDA should hear about the reality of the information marketplace, which is increasingly mobile and social, not about the past failings of consumers to check the source and date of health information online.
Pew Internet research shows that, in politics and in health care, participation matters as much as access.
Federal agencies can, and should, be the first responders to health questions. Social media can help.
Over half of the adult internet population is between 18 and 44 years old. But larger percentages of older generations are online now than in the past, and they are doing more activities online.
Participatory medicine is taking hold with both citizens and health professionals. But there are still pockets of people who lack access to the basic technology, lack the skills required to participate, or who may lack the sense that they are welc…
People turn to the internet for health information when the stakes are high and the connection fast.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has created three “thermometers” of digital access: internet, cell phone, and home broadband connections.
E-patients are at the center of the health care revolution, but how will Health 2.0 attract and serve the majority, not just the elite?
Many Americans are jumping into the participatory Web without considering all the implications. If nothing really bad has happened to someone, they tend neither to worry about their personal information nor to take steps to limit the amount of infor…
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