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Online Health Seeking: How Social Networks Can Be Healing Communities
This keynote will explore the Pew Internet Project’s latest findings on health searches and sharing on the internet and smart phones, as well as how digital technologies allow patient-centered communities to emerge and give care to those who are s…
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Mobile Health 2010
The online health-information environment is going mobile, particularly among younger adults.
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Behavior Change, Health 2.0, and the Unmentionables
Susannah Fox will guide a discussion of a combination of tools, content, and community changes that factor into health improvement. But what actually drives behavior change? And are we even asking the right questions?
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Trends in Teen Communication: Opportunities and Challenges for Public Health Campaigns
Kristen Purcell and Amanda Lenhart will be speaking at the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s Above the Influence Campaign Summit, sharing Pew Internet data on teen internet use and communication trends that local ONDCP partners can use to i…
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Segmenting the Health Consumer Population
Susannah Fox will lead a session on how to segment the current health consumer population and make connections between technology headlines and implications for the health sector.
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Crowdsourcing a Survey: Health Topics
One of our core health findings (8 in 10 internet users, or about two-thirds of U.S. adults, look online for health information) is based on a series of questions that is tweaked in each survey. We re-word or separate concepts, cut some topics, a…
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Pandas, Lobsters, and Health Care
Joe Kvedar asks an excellent question in his post, The Next Phase of Connected Health: Connected Personalized Health: What are the best variables to consider when taking connected health programs from pilot to scale?
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Mobile, Social Health at the National Library of Medicine
Speaking to the senior staff of the National Library of Medicine last week was like going before the best kind of murder board. Our jumping-off point was the Pew Internet Project’s latest research on internet penetration, mobile use, and the socia…
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Mobile, Social Health
Internet penetration, mobile use, the social life of health information — and how it fits in with the National Library of Medicine’s strategy.