The Future of Personal Health Records
A hearing was held to discover privacy, security, and confidentiality issues around personal health records, social media, and the future of medicine.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
A hearing was held to discover privacy, security, and confidentiality issues around personal health records, social media, and the future of medicine.
Federal agencies can, and should, be the first responders to health questions. Social media can help.
In this presentation, Mary Madden and Susannah Fox discuss the rise of participatory medicine within the context of key internet demographics and emerging online trends.
Eight in ten respondents who recently needed health information said they turned to a professional for advice.
This presentation provides data and insights about how the “participatory Web” may change how survey researchers think about online health information, as well as data on adults who continue to be offline in an online world.
“Web 2.0†has become a catch-all buzzword; the Pew Internet Project and Hitwise provide data to put it in perspective.
Fully 87% of teens go online, compared to just 32% of Americans age 65+. This leads, of course, to a wide gap when it comes to computer skills; there is less of a gap when it comes to the some of the activities each group pursues online.
Older internet users may be easy targets for viruses, spyware and the like. Younger internet users take more chances online, but they also take more precautions.
Thought-provoking scenarios of the future regarding education and network security.
In ten years, the Baby Boomers will age into the 65+ demographic and change everything about the “wired senior” group, but a great many offline Americans may be with us for years to come.
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