WASHINGTON (July 16, 2003) – In the first comprehensive national survey on the scope of health topics that Americans are searching online, the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that one in five Internet users has looked for mental health information, one in four has looked for health insurance information, and one in three […]
65 million Americans have sought health care information on the Internet Most online health activities are not covered by HIPAA WASHINGTON-Path-breaking new federal rules designed to protect the medical privacy of Americans will not guard the privacy of Internet users when they are doing the most common e-health actions online. The Health Insurance Portability and […]
Washington (Noon, November 26, 2000) Half the people who have used the Internet to get health and medical information say this information has improved the way they take care of themselves and many report that online information has directly affected their decisions about how to treat illness and deal with their doctors, according to […]
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