The Rise of the e-Patient
Director Lee Rainie presented to physicians, administrators, and staff at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California on January 12 on understanding social networking and online health information seeking.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Director Lee Rainie presented to physicians, administrators, and staff at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California on January 12 on understanding social networking and online health information seeking.
The effect of Facebook “power users” on everybody else
As mobile, social tools spread throughout the population, people are connecting with each other. Why not harness those tools for health?
How American teens navigate the new world of “digital citizenship”
Those who are active in church, religious, or spiritual organizations are often more deeply involved in their communities than those who are not members of such groups.
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.
The internet provides access not only to information, but also to each other, and Pew Internet’s research documents how this has transformed the health communications landscape over the last 10 years.
Is “peer-to-peer healthcare” an idea whose time has come? Evidence and recent examples.
The online conversation about health is being driven forward by two forces: 1) the availability of social tools and 2) the motivation, especially among people living with chronic conditions, to connect with each other.
Lee Rainie discusses e-patients and their online behavior
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