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Getting on the Internet for Health Advice

Posted on August 15, 2008

Susannah Fox of The Health Care Blog posts these interesting stats about people going online to seek out health information. Makes you wonder if this availability of information will change the healthcare paradigm. Take a look:Ten percent of internet users say they searched for health information yesterday, which in a tracking survey like this one yields a picture of the typical day online. Health has moved up in the typical day list (from 7 percent in 2006 to the current 10 percent of internet users), but for most people the average day includes lots of emails (60 percent of internet us...

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