Tracking for Health
69% of U.S. adults track a health indicator like weight, diet, exercise routine, or symptom. Of those, half track in their heads, one-third keep notes on paper, and one in five use technology to keep tabs on their health status.
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69% of U.S. adults track a health indicator like weight, diet, exercise routine, or symptom. Of those, half track in their heads, one-third keep notes on paper, and one in five use technology to keep tabs on their health status.
Half of smartphone owners use their devices to get health information and one-fifth of smartphone owners have health apps
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.
I think conferences are deeply affected by the spirit of their host city. San Francisco has its hackers and dreamers, Boston has its entrepreneurs and ivy, Paris has its pomp and worldliness. At Health 2.0 DC yesterday, my city showed that it ha…
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.
Connected patients spread new ideas, new treatments, and new ways of approaching a condition. Put them on your team.
Federal agencies can, and should, be the first responders to health questions. Social media can help.
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?
In the early days of the war with Iraq, 77% of online Americans used the Internet in some connection with the war. They went online to get information about the war, to learn and share differing opinions about the conflict, to send and receive emails about events, to express their views and to offer prayers.
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