Medicine 2.0: Peer-to-peer healthcare
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.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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.
Susannah Fox will participate in the first working meeting of the Open mHealth Public-Private Partnership in Washington, DC.
Susannah Fox presented the Project’s latest findings on how mobile access is affecting health and health care.
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.
More than a quarter of American adults – 26% – used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 mid-term election campaign.
The online health-information environment is going mobile, particularly among younger adults.
How do we explain the disparity between African-Americans’ and Hispanics’ views of the importance of government social media versus whites?
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 gives citizens new paths to government services and information.
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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