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
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.
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.
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…
An FCC survey finds that 78% of adults are internet users and 65% of adults have home broadband connections.
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.
38% of adults age 65 and older go online, a significantly lower rate of adoption than the general population (74%).
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