mHealth: Beyond Websites, Blogs, and Social Media
Description
With over 1.2 billion health-related searches on Google every month, there’s a high demand for open access to trusted medical information online. Most information available lives on static repositories such as websites or blogs, is created in a non-transparent fashion, doesn’t speak to the average reader, isn’t relevant, and offers no personalization. Although social media channels are more dynamic and personal, they are not well suited for the exchange of health information between patients and doctors.
Despite repeated attempts to successfully use these ridged, cumbersome, impersonal, and often anonymous information sources for health, research shows that most of the time what users find is of no help (Pew 2010). A new model for serving users has emerged and its successful implementation will be explained: it mimics the real-world practice of communicating directly with doctors, while democratizing health information and making finding it more efficient, accurate, and inexpensive.
Questions Answered
- How mHealth solutions can provide better means to deliver relevant, trusted, health information in a personalized fashion, than encyclopedic static web interfaces.
- Why current methods for gathering health information do not work.
- How mHealth should mimic real world interactions between a patient and a provider.
- How to democratize health information.
- How to make finding health information more efficient, accurate, inexpensive and personal.
Tags
healthcare innovation, social media, mhealth
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Speakers
- Jeff Pollard HealthTap
Organizer
Jessica Hershfield HealthTap
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