Mobile Health 2012
Half of smartphone owners use their devices to get health information and one-fifth of smartphone owners have health apps
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Half of smartphone owners use their devices to get health information and one-fifth of smartphone owners have health apps
86% of smartphone owners used their phone in the past month to make real-time queries to help them meet friends, solve problems, or settle arguments
Susannah Fox will participate in the first working meeting of the Open mHealth Public-Private Partnership in Washington, DC.
Food safety, drug safety, and pregnancy information are among eight new topics included in our survey, which finds that 80% of internet users gather health information online.
The online health-information environment is going mobile, particularly among younger adults.
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.
Susannah Fox will provide data on the current internet population, with a particular focus on health communication, wireless adoption, social media, and implications for public health planning.
Susannah Fox delivered a guest lecture for a history of medicine course regarding the role of the internet in health care over the last 15 years.
Pew Internet research shows that, in politics and in health care, participation matters as much as access.
Connected patients spread new ideas, new treatments, and new ways of approaching a condition. Put them on your team.
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