Family Caregivers are Wired for Health
39% of U.S. adults provide care for a loved one, up from 30% in 2010, and many navigate health care with the help of technology
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39% of U.S. adults provide care for a loved one, up from 30% in 2010, and many navigate health care with the help of technology
A summary of recent research related to cancer and the internet.
Consumers are often described as the greatest untapped information resource in medicine, but our research shows that patients and caregivers are already accessing that knowledge.
A very subjective guide to using Twitter to stay up to date on health and technology.
What will happen when the untapped knowledge of every patient, of every caregiver, of everyone who has something of value to share actually has the opportunity to share it?
Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others–up from 11% in April.
As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others.
Many Americans are jumping into the participatory Web without considering all the implications. If nothing really bad has happened to someone, they tend neither to worry about their personal information nor to take steps to limit the amount of infor…
83% of online Americans say they have used the internet to seek information about their hobbies and 29% do so on a typical day.
Just half of adults with chronic conditions use the internet; but once online, they are avid consumers of health information.
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