Adolescence, Mobile Technology & Culture
Mobile health technology is being used to reach adolescent populations from different cultural backgrounds. Susannah Fox will add Pew Internet’s data about health, mobile, and teens to the discussion.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Mobile health technology is being used to reach adolescent populations from different cultural backgrounds. Susannah Fox will add Pew Internet’s data about health, mobile, and teens to the discussion.
The Gov 2.0 Expo was a smorgasbord of policy, technology, and citizen engagement. Aaron Smith and Susannah Fox share their notes.
Highlights from some of the key presentations made at a National Institutes of Health workshop held in November 2009.
Not content to stand by and let other people innovate for them, participant-entrepreneurs are creating the services, devices, and communities they need.
Susannah Fox will provide data on the current internet population, with a particular focus on health communication, wireless adoption, social media, and implications for public health planning.
38% of adults age 65 and older go online, a significantly lower rate of adoption than the general population (74%).
Social media is simply the current expression of patient activation and engagement. But this time e-patients are part of a larger cultural change that assumes access to information, enables communication among disparate groups, and expects progress.
Mobile, social technologies are tapping in to a human need to connect with each other, to share, to lend a helping hand, and to laugh. I’d like to start a conversation about health privacy that includes an open dialogue about the risks and benefit…
I believe that, although very few people engage with their health on a daily or even weekly basis, it is important to understand what they do when their attention is focused on a health question.
Susannah Fox presented the latest findings on the internet’s impact on health and health care, including an early look at new data showing how people living with chronic conditions gather and share information online.
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